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A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state. Brande & C.

The quality or state of being plastic.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite. The Century.

[Written also plebiscit.] Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the French. Fitzed. Hall.

A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.

te of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.

A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise. Bp. Burnet.

A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and cæsia. Called also pollux.

Polysyllabism.

e mental powers; forwardness. Saucy precociousness in learning. Bp. Mannyngham. That precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius. Wirt.

Forwardness; pertness; petulance. [R.] Burton.

The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it,…

Modesty; chastity. Howell.

Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness. " A national pugnacity of character." Motley.

Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.

Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.

A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.

e bark, horse- chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.