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To make or enact a law or laws. Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them. Bp. Watson (1805).

The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Lyttelton.

written language. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. Luke xxiii. 38.

The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.

h the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

anal lock. -- Lift pump, a lifting pump. -- Lift tenter (Windmills), a governor for regulating the speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the speed. -- Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the lock.

Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.

e appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker.

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will . . .…

On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [U.S.]

Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular. Gray.

the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.

A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.

Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin.

in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia. -- n.

Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.

Relating to, containing, or made with, malt. Malt liquor, an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt. -- Malt dust, fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the…