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Laced muttonLaced Laced, a.
1. Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow
strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.
2. Decorated with the fabric lace.
A shirt with laced ruffles. --Fielding.
Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang]
Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly
laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc.
--Dunglison. Leg-of-mutton
StateLegislature, or parliamentUpper House[colret]NameNumber of
members -- how chosen or composed -- term of officeLower
House[colret]NameNumber of members -- suffrage -- term of office
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ArgentinaNational CongressSenate30 -- 2 from each provincew and
2 from capital -- 9 yearsHouse of Deputies120 (1 to 33,000) --
Manhood -- 4 years Austria Belgium Brazil Chile Denmark France
German Empire *Great BritainParliamentHouse of LordsAbout
600House of CommonsAbout 670 -- 7 years, or until dissolution
Greece Hungary Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands #Norway Portugal
PrussiaLandtagHerrenhausNo limit -- very various classes -- For
different termsAbgeordnetenhaus433 -- Indirect election, general
suffrage[sect] -- 5 years, or until dissolution Spain Sweden
Switzerland United StatesCongressSenate92(1908) -- 6 yearsHouse
of Representatives391 (1908) -- 2 years.
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*In the self-governing colonies of Great Britain the legislative
body usually consists of two chambers, the names of the
legislature and the chambers varying. Thus in Australia the
Federal Parliament is composed of the Senate and the House of
Commons, in New Zealand the General Assembly is composed of the
Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, etc.
#Members of the Storthing are chosen for three years by direct
election by manhood suffrage, forty-one being elected from the
towns and eighty-two from the rural districts. The Storthing on
assembling divides into the Lagthing including one fourth and
the Odelsthing including three fourths of the total membership
of the Storthing. All new laws are laid first before the
Odelsthing. If the two houses do not agree they vote in joint
session, a majority of two thirds of those voting being
necessary to a decision. [sect] While theoretically general, the
suffrage is so classified as often practically to disfranchise
those who are not property holders. Leg-of-mutton
Leg"-of-mut"ton, a.
Having the general shape or outline of a leg of mutton; as, a
leg-of-mutton, or shoulder-of-mutton, sail.
mutton fishEelpout Eel"pout`, n. [AS. ?lepute.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for
producing living young; -- called also greenbone,
guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American
species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish,
and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel.
Both are edible, but of little value.
(b) A fresh-water fish, the burbot. Muttony
Muttony Mut"ton*y, a.
Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.
Welsh muttonWelsh Welsh, a. [AS. w[ae]lisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger,
foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael;
akin to OHG. walh, whence G. w["a]lsch or welsch, Celtic,
Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from
the name of a Celtic tribe. See Walnut.]
Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. [Sometimes
written also Welch.]
Welsh flannel, a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece
of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely
manufactured by hand.
Welsh glaive, or Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in
former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of
poleax. --Fairholt. --Craig.
Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being
a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on
payment of the principal, with an understanding that the
profits in the mean time shall be received by the
mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest.
--Burrill.
Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained
from a breed of small sheep in Wales.
Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum)
having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any
bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been
introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived
its name from the German term w["a]lsch foreign.
Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. &
Jocular] --J. Fletcher.
Welsh rabbit. See under Rabbit.
Meaning of Mutton from wikipedia
- Lamb and
mutton,
collectively sheep meat (or sheepmeat) is one of the most
common meats around the world,
taken from the
domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and...
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mutton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mutton usually refers to
sheep meat.
Mutton may also
refer to:
Mutton Bird Island, an
irregularly shaped...
- The
mutton snapper (Lutj**** analis) is a
species of
marine ray-finned fish, a
snapper belonging to the
family Lutjanidae. It is
found in the
Western Atlantic...
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Mutton curry (also
referred to as
kosha mangsho, lamb curry, or goat curry) is a dish that is
prepared from goat meat (or
sometimes lamb meat) and vegetables...
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rendered form of beef or
mutton suet,
primarily made up of triglycerides. In industry,
tallow is not
strictly defined as beef or
mutton suet. In this context...
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Mutton flaps, or
breast of lamb, are an
inexpensive cut of meat from a sheep.
Consisting of a sheep's
lower rib meat,
mutton flaps are
considered a low-quality...
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Mutton ****o is a dish
fairly common in
North Indian,
South Indian and ****stani and
Turkish cuisine that
incorporates mutton into a rice pilaf. The rice...
- more
extravagant than
those seen today,
similar to what are now
called mutton chops, but
considerably more extreme. In
period literature, "side whiskers"...
- The
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restauranter duo
consisting of
Justin Ang (Chinese: 洪伟扬) and
Vernon Anthonisz. The pair
first began...
- The
Mutton Birds were a New
Zealand rock
music group formed in
Auckland in 1991 by Ross Burge,
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