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One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like. To all that kept the city pensions and wages. 1 Esd. iv. 56.

ary, the title of the prime minister, or or president of the Council, of Holland when a republic.

A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.

rried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. "Her walking and other actual performances." Shak. "His musical performances." Macaulay.

nths, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic. How by art to make plants more lasting than their ordinary period. Bacon.

A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.

, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. Locke.

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.

that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. "A pest and public enemy." South.

To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.

Figuratively, to expose to public scorn. Gladstone.

A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. [Obs.] All placards or edicts are published in his name. Howell.

A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state. Brande & C.

Frequenting playhouses; as, the playgoing public. -- n.

A public square in a city or town.

The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in

One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. Brande & C.

mitation the police power, as affecting persons, is the power of the state to protect the public against the abuse of individual liberty, that is, to restrain the individual in the exercise of his rights when such exercise becomes a danger to the community. The tendency of judicial and popular usage is towards this nar…

by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.