- Solicit votes - Solicit votes from - To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize;
as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district
with reference to its probable vote. - To examine by discussion; to debate. - To go trough, with personal solicitation or public
addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for
subscriptions. - To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by
traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes;
to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; --
commonly followed by for. - Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a
canvass of votes.
- 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.