Word Meanings - POCKETVETO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision (Const. Art. I., sec. 7, cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law." Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor.

• Present
  Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
• Stateroom
  A magnificent room in a place or great house.
• Afterwise
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• Presentimental
  Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding.
• Unitarianize
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• Constabless
  The wife of a constable.
• Preventer
  One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.
• Constipation
  Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
• Returnable
  Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
• AFTERIMAGE
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• Constitutively
  In a constitutive manner.
• Shallow-waisted
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOWPATED
  Shallow-brained.
• Constringing
  of Constringe
• Signalment
  The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.
• Construing
  of Construe
• Signification
  The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.
• Exceptive
  That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.
• Signpost
  A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

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