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standard of another, as the value of the pound sterling in the currency of France or the United States. The par of exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example, a bill in New York, for the payment of on…

xcise system. The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States. Abbot. An excise . . . is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities. 11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts.

vernment, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

ch better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope. Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.

A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.

The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts. The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties…

United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

lect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.

To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

aving a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.

dvocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. Barlow.

United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] Coleridge.

, used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.] [It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.