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- Congress - n. - A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
- Congress - n. - A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.
- Congress - n. - The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
- Congress - n. - A gathering or assembly; a conference.
- Congress - n. - A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
- Congress - n. - The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
- Congress - n. - The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
- Congresses - pl. - of Congress
- Congression - n. - A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse.
- Congressional - a. - Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
- Congressive - a. - Encountering, or coming together.
- Congressman - n. - A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
- Congressmen - pl. - of Congressman
- Represent - v. t. - To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.
- Volt - n. - The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.
- Amphictyons - n. pl. - Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
- Ampere - n. - The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere.
- Meet - v. t. - To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.
- Passage - v. i. - In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
- Eisteddfod - n. - Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
- Call - v. t. - To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
- Congressman - n. - A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
- Orientalist - n. - One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists.
- Half-boot - n. - A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
- Ohm - n. - The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.
- Congressional - a. - Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
- Adjourn - v. i. - To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.
- Understand - v. t. - To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
- Capitol - - The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.