About The Word Hustings
Learn about the word Hustings to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Hustings definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Hustings
| Hustings Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Hustings?
[n] the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hustings: Related Terms | Find terms related to Hustings: See Also | campaigning | candidacy | candidature | electioneering | political campaign Hustings In Webster's Dictionary \Hus"tings\, n. pl. [OE. husting an assembly, coucil,
AS. h?sting; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. h?s?ing; h?s home +
?ing thing, assembly, meeting; akin to Dan. & Sw. ting, E.
thing. See {House}, and {Thing}.]
1. A court formerly held in several cities of England;
specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor,
recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of
suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the
progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.
--Mozley & W.
2. Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of
members of the British Parliament.
3. The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly
stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.]
When the rotten hustings shake In another month to
his brazen lies. --Tennyson.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Perfect ‐ a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed…
- Domain ‐ a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating…
- Consent decree ‐ an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court;…
- Signatory ‐ someone who signs and is bound by…
- Hunting license ‐ a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal…
- Genus hermannia ‐ genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped…
- Portico ‐ a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and…
- Unaffiliated ‐ not…
- Multiple regression ‐ a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable…
- Xor gate ‐ gate for exclusive OR; a circuit in a computer that fires only…