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A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
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A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.
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The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
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A gathering or assembly; a conference.
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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.
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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.
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The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
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an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution.
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the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789.
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a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off.
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a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.