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A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.

A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] "The moot-hall of Herod." Wyclif.

A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.

A period during which an obligor has a legal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.

A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

middle points of those parts of the perpendiculars that are between their common point of meeting and the angles of the triangle. The circle is hence called the nine points or six points circle.

To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. The small shoots ... must be nipped off. Mortimer.

e has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting. The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act. Journal of the Senate, U. S.

) A leaf having one half different from the other. -- Oblique line (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it. -- Oblique motion (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accom…

A meeting; a clash; a collision. [Obs.] Boyle.

open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.

Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.

Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.

is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc. Out is used in a variety of applications, as: --

An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.

Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.

An unlawful meeting.

sed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers. Chaucer.

The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.

Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting. [Colloq. U. S.]