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A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. "A cab came clattering up." Thackeray.

er intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited. The only danger that attends multiplicity of publication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society. Goldsmith. The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally recei…

ollect; to revive in memory. -- To call to order, to request to come to order; as: (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business. (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of debate. -- To call to the bar, to admit to practice in courts of law. -- To call up. (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to…

Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.

The science of finance or public revenue.

icated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

A all for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell their leases by cant." Swift.

al district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.

To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions.

e early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.

The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.

pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.

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

temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

lack. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track. -- cattle louse (Zoöl.), any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several species. The Hæmatatopinus eurysternus and H. vituli are common spec…

cially 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 garret of Tom Da…

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

A census; -- also, a public rate or tax. [Obs.] Howell. Bacon.

owered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.