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A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.

A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the g…

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

of repose and age. -- To put into the chair, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. -- To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.]

In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

A business meeting of any religious community.

To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey.

that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.

less; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.

ntertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organ…

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

which the parties engaged are not armies. Single combat, one in which a single combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath; also a duel.

mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and "time" is called; hence: (b) To keep an a…

A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient. Thou shalt meet a company of prophets. 1 Sam. x. 5.