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n. the act of making or enacting laws; legislation{ 1 }.
Syn. -- legislation, lawmaking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. législation, L. legis latio. See Legislator. ] The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Lyttelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. législatif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a legislative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. legis lator, prop., a proposer of a law; lex, legis, law + lator a proposer, bearer, fr. latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear: cf. F. législateur. See Legal, and Tolerate. ] A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a legislator. Halifax. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. législature. ] The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The legislature of Great Britain consists of the Lords and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures of most of the United States consist of two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of the governor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned his objections. [ 1913 Webster ]

The legislatures of some of the more important states having constitutional government are as follows, the general name (or a translation of it) of the legislative body collectively being given under the heading legislature, or parliament:

 StateLegislature, or parliamentUpper HouseNameNumber of members -- how chosen or composed -- term of officeLower HouseNameNumber of members -- suffrage -- term of office ----------------------------------------------------------------- ArgentinaNational CongressSenate30 -- 2 from each provincew and 2 from capital -- 9 yearsHouse of Deputies120 (1 to 33, 000) -- Manhood -- 4 years AustriaReichsrath BelgiumThe Chambers BrazilNational Congress ChileNational Congress DenmarkRigsdag FranceNational Assembly German EmpireImperial legislature *Great BritainParliamentHouse of LordsAbout 600House of CommonsAbout 670 -- 7 years, or until dissolution Greece HungaryOrzág-gyülés ItalyParliament JapanImperial Diet MexicoCongress NetherlandsStates-General #NorwayStorthing PortugalCortes Geraes (general Assembly) PrussiaLandtagHerrenhausNo limit -- very various classes -- For different termsAbgeordnetenhaus433 -- Indirect election, general suffrage§ -- 5 years, or until dissolution SpainCortes SwedenDiet SwitzerlandBundesversammlung United StatesCongressSenate92(1908) -- 6 yearsHouse of Representatives391 (1908) -- 2 years. 

n. (Computers) The translation of human language from one language to another by a computer; -- a branch of artificial intelligence.
Syn. -- computer translation, automatic translation. [ PJC ]

v. t. To translate erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong translation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. Slot a bar. ] A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Slatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slatting. ] [ OE. slatten; cf. Icel. sletta to slap, to dab. ] 1. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently. [ Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How did you kill him?
Slat[ t ]ed his brains out. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To split; to crack. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Slack. ] (Naut.) (a) The period of a transitory breeze. (b) An interval of fair weather. (c) The loose or slack part of a rope; slack. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. slat, sclat, OF. esclat a shiver, splinter, F. éclat, fr. OF. esclater to shiver, to chip, F. éclater, fr. OHG. sleizen to tear, slit, split, fr. slīzan to slit, G. schleissen. See Slit, v. t., and cf. Eclat. ] 1. (Min.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: (a) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. (b) A tablet for writing upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A thin plate of any material; a flake. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Politics) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand. [ Cant, U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adhesive slate (Min.), a kind of slate of a greenish gray color, which absorbs water rapidly, and adheres to the tongue; whence the name. --
Aluminous slate, or
Alum slate (Min.), a kind of slate containing sulphate of alumina, -- used in the manufacture of alum. --
Bituminous slate (Min.), a soft species of sectile clay slate, impregnated with bitumen. --
Hornblende slate (Min.), a slaty rock, consisting essentially of hornblende and feldspar, useful for flagging on account of its toughness. --
Slate ax or
Slate axe, a mattock with an ax end, used in shaping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails. --
Slate clay (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of the alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. Tomlinson. --
Slate globe, a globe the surface of which is made of an artificial slatelike material. --
Slate pencil, a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for writing on a slate. --
Slate rocks (Min.), rocks which split into thin laminae, not necessarily parallel to the stratification; foliated rocks. --
Slate spar (Min.), a variety of calcite of silvery white luster and of a slaty structure. --
Transparent slate, a plate of translucent material, as ground glass, upon which a copy of a picture, placed beneath it, can be made by tracing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Slated; p. pr. & vb. n. Slating. ] 1. To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment. [ Polit. Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. AS. sl&aemacr_;ting a privilege of hunting. ] To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ Written also slete. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

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A dark bluish gray color. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a dark gray, like slate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Slates, collectively; also, material for slating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Slat a strip of board. ] A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ E. slat to throw or dash about. ] To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. “The slattern air.” Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv. In a slatternly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [ Obs. ] Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slats, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Slate. ] Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slaty cleavage (Min.), cleavage, as of rocks, into thin leaves or plates, like those of slate; -- applied especially to those cases in which the planes of cleavage are not parallel to the planes of stratification. It is now believed to be caused by the compression which the strata have undergone. --
Slaty gneiss (Min.), a variety of gneiss in which the scales of mica or crystals of hornblende, which are usually minute, form thin laminae, rendering the rock easily cleavable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating. ] [ f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation. ] 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [ Archaic ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove to heaven without a natural death. [ 1913 Webster ]

By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim. Heb. xi. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. “Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused.” Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To change into another form; to transform. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation. ] 1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Rhet.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metaph.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Kinematics) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Tralatitious. ] Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. translativus that is to be transferred: cf. F. translatif. ] tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. [ R. ] Puttenham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. translator: cf. F. translateur. ] 1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Teleg.) A repeating instrument. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of a translator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to translate; transferring. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who translates. [ 1913 Webster ]