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central reserve citiesReserve city Reserve city (Banking)
In the national banking system of the United States, any of
certain cities in which the national banks are required (--U.
S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per
cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other
banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities
(specifically called central reserve cities) are required
to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in other reserve
cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these
banks (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5195). Citied
Citied Cit"ied, a.
1. Belonging to, or resembling, a city. ``Smoky, citied
towns' [R.] --Drayton.
2. Containing, or covered with, cities. [R.] ``The citied
earth.' --Keats.
CitiesCity Cit"y, n.; pl. Cities. [OE. cite, F. cit?, fr. L.
civitas citizenship, state, city, fr. civis citizen; akin to
Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja man of the house), AS. ?, pl.,
members of a family, servants, ? family, G. heirath marriage,
prop., providing a house, E. hind a peasant.]
1. A large town.
2. A corporate town; in the United States, a town or
collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed
by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a
board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain,
a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a
bishop, or the capital of his see.
A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has
been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric
has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet
remaineth a city. --Blackstone
When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course
meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word
city has no other meaning in English law. --Palfrey
3. The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
``What is the city but the people?' --Shak.
Syn: See Village. Cities of refuge 3. An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or
contrivance.
Their latest refuge Was to send him. --Shak.
Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by
terracing ??? story in danger of darkness. --Sir H.
Wotton.
Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed
as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed
homicide without design. Of these there were three on each
side of Jordan. --Josh. xx.
House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving
shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or
tempted.
Syn: Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert. free citiesHanse Hanse, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. &
Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h?s band, troop.]
An association; a league or confederacy.
Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany
which associated themselves for the protection and
enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also
Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in
1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At
one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its
remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free
cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns. MendacitiesMendacity Men*dac"i*ty, n.; pl. Mendacities. [L.
mendacitas.]
1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of
lying. --Macaulay.
2. A falsehood; a lie. --Sir T. Browne.
Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood. Principle of virtual velocitiesVirtual Vir"tu*al (?; 135), a. [Cf. F. virtuel. See Virtue.]
1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy
without the agency of the material or sensible part;
potential; energizing.
Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without
communication of substance. --Bacon.
Every kind that lives, Fomented by his virtual
power, and warmed. --Milton.
2. Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual
presence of a man in his agent or substitute.
A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the
conditions necessary to its actual existence.
--Fleming.
To mask by slight differences in the manners a
virtual identity in the substance. --De Quincey.
Principle of virtual velocities (Mech.), the law that when
several forces are in equilibrium, the algebraic sum of
their virtual moments is equal to zero.
Virtual focus (Opt.), the point from which rays, having
been rendered divergent by reflection of refraction,
appear to issue; the point at which converging rays would
meet if not reflected or refracted before they reach it.
Virtual image. (Optics) See under Image.
Virtual moment (of a force) (Mech.), the product of the
intensity of the force multiplied by the virtual velocity
of its point of application; -- sometimes called virtual
work.
Virtual velocity (Mech.), a minute hypothetical
displacement, assumed in analysis to facilitate the
investigation of statical problems. With respect to any
given force of a number of forces holding a material
system in equilibrium, it is the projection, upon the
direction of the force, of a line joining its point of
application with a new position of that point indefinitely
near to the first, to which the point is conceived to have
been moved, without disturbing the equilibrium of the
system, or the connections of its parts with each other.
Strictly speaking, it is not a velocity but a length.
Virtual work. (Mech.) See Virtual moment, above. SpeciocitiesSpeciosity Spe`ci*os"i*ty, n.; pl. Speciocities. [Cf. LL.
speciositas.]
1. The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.
Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead
of performance. --Carlyle.
2. That which is specious. --Dr. H. More.
Meaning of Citie from wikipedia
- A city is a
human settlement of a
notable size. The term "city" has
different meanings around the
world and in some
places the
settlement can be very small...
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attributed to
Marco Polo and
dated 1320: This
Citie is
three dayes journey Northeastward to the
Citie Xandu,
which the Chan
Cublai now
reigning built;...
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Society (6): 67. J. Stow, A
Svrvay of
London (John Windel,
Printer to the
Citie of London, 1603), p. 155-6 (Google). "Honour of
Citizens and
worthines of...
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Government of this
Citie', in A.
Munday (ed.), The
Survey of London;
contayning the Orignall, Increase,
Moderne Estate and
Government of that
Citie,
begun by Iohn...
- City Hall (Irish:
Halla na
Cathrach Bhéal Feirste; Ulster-Scots:
Bilfawst Citie Haw) is the
civic building of
Belfast City
Council located in
Donegall Square...
- late in the
parish church of Bun****: a town of no
great distance from the
citie of Norwich,
namely the
fourth of this August, in the
yeere of our Lord 1577...
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Belfast City
Council Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal
Feirste Bilfawst Citie Cooncil Coat of arms
Council logo Type Type City
council Leadership Lord
Mayor Ryan...
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uniform featured a new "Twin Cities"
wordmark (with the
underline below "win
Citie") in navy. The set,
which lacked red, also
featured two
crossed navy flags...
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Wales in the 16th–18th centuries,
described by
William Camden as "chief
citie of the country".
Growth stagnated by the mid-19th
century as new settlements...
- Leiden: For
these &
other reasons they
removed to Leyden, a fair &
bewtifull citie, and of a
sweete situation, but made more
famous by ye
universitie wherwith...
