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Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.

Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding. [R.] His angels president In every province. Milton.

Presiding or watching over. "Presidential angels." Glanvill.

The presiding officer of a convocation. Macaulay.

Presiding over marriage. [R.]

The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale.

Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

Residing; residentiary. [R.]

of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.

ce. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exac…

To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.

Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton.

To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. "Heaven's subsiding hill." Dryden.

The act or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton.

, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch.

eous; pure; as, a virtuous action. The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, conscience. Milton.

The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.

A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.