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A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.

A meeting for mirth.

A religious service mainly in song. [Local, U. S.]

A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.

y, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this co…

as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.

. See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presump…

righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak.

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimn…

The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.

respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth. Milton.

An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope.

To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott.

To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.

One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.

Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.