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end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.

ion; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation. Dryden. -- Tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- Tol"er*a*bly, adv.

inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

n substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.

To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke.

That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation. [Obs.] Howell.

Translation from one language to another. [Obs.]

To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] Pope.

some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composes for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate re…

To change or translate from one dialect into another. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]

A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.

e, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad. Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown. Pope.

any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.

Having, or consisting of, a single chamber; -- said of a legislative assembly. [R.] F. Lieber.

Hypostatic union (Theol.) See under Hypostatic. -- Latin union. See under Latin. -- Legislative Union (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801. -- Union, or Act of Union (Eng. Hist.), the act by which Scotland was united to England, or by which the two kingdoms were incorpo…