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A system of voting, as at primaries, in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates for an office, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second…

In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.

So as to prevent or hinder.

The office of a priest. [Obs.] Milton.

r figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints. Block printing. See under Block. -- Printing frame (Photog.), a shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are m…

gative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.

A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.

Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.

By way of protection; in a protective manner.

By way of protesting.

., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting.

The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

A quilting bee. See Bee, 2.

The hunting of rabbits. T. Hughes.

The business of making or managing rafts.

In a ranting manner.

The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.

The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action if acid. Fairholt.

Reverence; honor. [Obs.] In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.

Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having…