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A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. [U.S.]

the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly, adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public meeting.

ve conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution. Nor is your firm resolve unknown. Shak. Cæsar's approach has summoned us together, And Rome attends her fate from our resolves. Addison.

o review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.

Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal. Raymond.

to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed. After the third reading, a foolish man stood up to propose a rider. Macaulay. This [question] was…

er Ascension. -- Right Center (Politics), those members belonging to the Center in a legislative assembly who have sympathies with the Right on political questions. See Center, n., 5. -- Right cone, Right cylinder, Right prism, Right pyramid (Geom.), a cone, cylinder, prism, or pyramid, the axis of which is perpendic…

See Legislature, Denmark.

A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

"The rude Irish books." Spenser. Rude am I in my speech. Shak. Unblemished by my rude translation. Dryden.

Thin boards for shealting, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.

A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.

Of a slate color.

body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.

A sea slater.

An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. Specifically: (a) (Anc. Rom.)

Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. Abp. Newcome.

o called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

cobia. Drill sergeant. (Mil.) See under Drill. -- Sergeant-at-arms, an officer of a legislative body, or of a deliberative or judicial assembly, who executes commands in preserving order and arresting offenders. See Sergeant, 1. -- Sergeant major. (a) (Mil.) See the Note under def. 2, above. (b) (Zoöl.) The cow pilo…