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To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] Waller. -- To make believe, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. -- To make bold, to take the liberty; to venture. -- To make the cards (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. -- To make choice of, to take by way of preference; to choose. -- To make danger, to make experim…

f honor, rank, or official station. In the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the Senate. Shak.

ossession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

rant. I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Cæsar, till I shake the senate. Addison.

To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.

Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.

ied the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act. Journal of the Senate, U. S.

official duties, or routine. That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate. Shak.

edure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate. The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. Hooker.

responding Anglo-Saxon and Norman words. Forgive points to inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger. Pardon looks more to outward things or consequences, and is often applied to trifling matters, as when we beg pardon for interrupting a man, or for…

l sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.

ss eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color.

A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.

The magpie. [Written also pianate, and pyenate.]

ce of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.

and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people.

An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.

A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.