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, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

A hound for hunting deer. Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [Eng.]

letin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.

The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.

An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. [Eng.]

The office of a bursar.

An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. The butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your butler strolled abroad. Pope.

The office of a butler.

abal is a secret association of a few individuals who seek by cunning practices to obtain office and power. A faction is a larger body than a cabal, employed for selfish purposes in agitating the community and working up an excitement with a view to change the existing order of things. "Selfishness, insubordination, an…

A room in ship for officers or passengers. Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.

e his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.

The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also cader.]

A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.

The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.

To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. Paul . . . called to be an apostle Rom. i. 1. T…

lf, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.