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A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.] Shak.

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A com…

An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.

ate, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympathy which permits influence or communication.

The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

erate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.

public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.

To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Ps. xc. 15. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall ne…

ance of 21 feet from it. -- Service of a writ, process, etc. (Law), personal delivery or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the party to be affected by it, so as to subject him to its operation; the reading of it to the person to whom notice is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested copy with…

ch is shown as admitting steam to one end of the cylinder through the port e, and opening communication between the exhaust passage f and the port c, for the release of steam from the opposite end of the cylinder.

sisting in union or mutual intercourse. Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social communication. Milton.

which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. Holder.

The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

nknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. I was no stranger to the original. Dryden.…

To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.

The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.

tion of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. -- Tel`e*path"ic, a. -- Te*lep"a*thist, n.

A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.