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A collector of gabels or taxes.

rror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it. -- Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar. Thus, every year, of the cu…

That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.

A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

ial horizon, a level mirror, as the surface of mercury in a shallow vessel, or a plane reflector adjusted to the true level artificially; -- used chiefly with the sextant for observing the double altitude of a celestial body. -- Celestial horizon. (Astron.) See def. 2, above. -- Dip of the horizon (Astron.), the vert…

The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant.

e to chose a United States senator. "Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the electoral votes are all counted and the result declared." Joint Rules of Congress, U. S. -- Joint resolution (Parliamentary Practice), a resolution adopted concurrently by the two branches of a legislative body. "By the constituti…

t; as, to discourse on a subject at large. -- Common at large. See under Common, n. -- Electors at large, Representative at large, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to represent particular districts in a State. [U. S.] -- To give,…

ched to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.

nstrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.

A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison.

ent of angles in optical experiments. -- Optical square, a surveyor's instrument with reflectors for laying off right angles.

-- Orange cowry (Zoöl.), a large, handsome cowry (Cypræa aurantia), highly valued by collectors of shells on account of its rarity. -- Orange grass (Bot.), an inconspicuous annual American plant (Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers. -- Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtained…

An African weaver bird (Textor alector).

A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]