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assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.

Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse. "A life monastic." Denham.

Sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money- making man.

A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the s…

or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons. Musical, or Music, box, a box or case containing apparatus moved by clockwork so as to play…

a negative vote; one who votes in the negative. It is no nay, there is no denying it. [Obs.] haucer.

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

A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

A negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it.

One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.

Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. Oblate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis; an oblatum. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted. [Obs.] His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither. Addison.

etc. -- Opera hat, a gentleman's folding hat. -- Opera house, specifically, a theater devoted to the performance of operas. -- Opera seria Etym: [It.], serious or tragic opera; grand opera.

Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote.

An estimate that is too high; as, an overestimate of the vote.

A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.

oos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

ers of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote. [Parliamentary Cant]