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A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.

A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.

A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

nted music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked. -- To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]

ndiculars from the angles of the triangle upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the sides. It also passes through the three middle points of the sides of the triangle and through the three middle points of those parts of the perpendiculars that are between their common point of meeting and the angles of…

To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. The small shoots ... must be nipped off. Mortimer.

otice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting. The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act. Journal of the Senate, U. S.…

) A leaf having one half different from the other. -- Oblique line (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it. -- Oblique motion (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accom…

To meet in the way. [Obs.] Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion. Fuller.

To meet; to clash. [Obs.] The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley.

One who meets; hence, an adversary. [Obs.] Holland.

A meeting; a clash; a collision. [Obs.] Boyle.

trust; as, official duties, or routine. That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate. Shak.

open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.

Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.

That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.

Rising, as the sun. Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. Milton.

Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.

is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc. Out is used in a variety of applications, as: --

ryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )