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A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

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Facility 76% connected

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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Installation 76% connected

The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained mini…

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Meeting 76% connected

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Assembly 92% connected

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for…

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Accuse verb · 78% connection

to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

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Arrangement noun · 78% connection

an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was i…

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Backwardation noun · 78% connection

the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.…

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Bar noun · 78% connection

(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not a…

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Boom noun · 78% connection

A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand…

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Bull verb · 78% connection

To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices…

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Concubine noun · 78% connection

A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…

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Cross noun · 78% connection

A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing C…

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Deliverable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.

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Drover noun · 78% connection

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

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Elegit noun · 78% connection

A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to sat…

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Escrow noun · 78% connection

A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is p…

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Galilee noun · 78% connection

A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bo…

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Iatromathematician noun · 78% connection

One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics…

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Logrolling noun · 78% connection

The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market.…

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Market noun · 78% connection

A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place…

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Marketer noun · 78% connection

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

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Merchantable adjective · 78% connection

Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a tech…

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