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The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.

, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.

arrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.

ect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates. We are said to remember anithing, when the idea of it ariseI. Watts.

overthrows all the former; but the republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first. Blackstone.

To present a requisition to; to summon request; as, to requisition a person to be a candidate. [Eng.]

Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.

A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.

cay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like. The Veian and the Gabian towers shall fall, And one promiscuous ruin cover all; Nor, after length of years, a stone betray The place where once the very ruins lay. Addison. Th…

Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Cor. ix. 24.

To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.

share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

Voting for a group of candidates for the same kind of office on one ticket or ballot, containing a list of them; -- the method, used in France, as from June, 1885, to Feb., 1889, in elections for the Chamber of Deputies, each elector voting for the candidates for the whole department in which he lived, as disting. from…

earing (Shafting), a bearing which is supported in such a manner that it may tip to accomodate flexure or displacement of the shaft.

A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.

To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.

. at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing. Youatt.