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ly one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.

A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.

representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative. The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents. Abbot. To appeal from the representatives to the constituents…

ection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

ce of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

ies. Ld. Chatham. The convention with the State of georgia has been ratified by their Legislature. T. Jefferson.

To turn into another language; to translate. [Obs.] Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. -- Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.…

he same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of muscular movement by th…

The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

See Legislature, Portugal.

A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council. An old lord of the council rated me the other day. Shak.

at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. -- General Court, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judical power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] -- To pay one's court, to seek to gain favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying…

That portion of a slate, tile, or shingle, which is hidden by the overlap of the course above. Knight.

A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there. Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; -- so called because most prominent at Cumberland.

A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

ear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature. Declaratory act (Law), an act or statute which sets forth more clearly, and declares what is, the existing law.