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A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color.

A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.

nce of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.

, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people.

An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.

A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. Shak.

est load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison.

or pertaining to a republic. The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. Macaulay.

overnment, or of resistance to lawful authority. In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

A member of a senate. The duke and senators of Venice greet you. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.

A decree of the Roman senate.

ubmit to; to suffer. Bid him disband his legions, . . . And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. Addison.

gislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.

s, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.

To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest. [Obs.] "The usuringb senate." Shak. I usured not ne to me usured any man. Wyclif (Jer. xv. 10).

A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.