- Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or
wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only
during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy. - State of being paired with a single mate.
- A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of
emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it,
but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife
indeed."
- Entrance hall - Foyer - Front hall - Pressure group - A passage or hall of communication, especially when large
enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber
in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to
one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved. - That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the
official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who
frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any
persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its
proceedings by personal agency. - An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an
old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
- A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not
only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories,
to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable
to be called to arms, as in ancient France.
- A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North
America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike
flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron
tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in
the Cretaceous epoch.
- An order of reptiles having biconcave
vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar
osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but
numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest
of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.