68 GRAMMAR. 



Rev'enue. — The annual produce of taxes, excise, customs, 

 duties, rents, etc., wliich a nation or state collects and 

 receives into the treasury for public use. 



Sen'ate. — The upper house of a national assembly, or of a 

 state legislature, in the United States and many other 

 modern republics. 



Sociorogy. — Political science. 



Statis'tics. — The name given to the science which exhibits 

 the state or condition of a country or nation, principally 

 in relation to its extent, population, industry, wealth, and 

 ])ower. 



Statistol'ogy. — A discourse or treatise upon statistics. 



Stratocracy. — A military government, or that form of gov- 

 ernment in which the soldiery bear the sway. 



Syn'archy. — Joint rule or sovereignty. 



Theocracy. — The government of a nation immediately by 

 God, as that of the Israelites before the appointment of 

 kings. 



Timoc'racy. — A form of government in which a certain amount 

 of property is requisite as a qualification for office, or one 

 which is a kind of mean between an aristocracy and aa 

 oligarchy. 



Tri'archy. — A government by three. 



Ve'to ( Lat. veto, I forbid). — The power possessed by the execu- 

 tive branch of a legislative body, as a king, president, gov- 

 ernor, etc., to negative a bill that has passed the other 

 branches of the legislature. 



Zoll'verein. — An agreement or union am.ong the German states, 

 for the collection of custom-house duties. 



GRAMMAR. 



Grammar. — As an art, is the power of reading, writing, and 

 speaking correctly ; as a science, it teaches the right use of 

 language. 



Orthog'raphy — Treats of letters, syllables, separate words, and 

 spelling. 



Etymol'ogy — Treats of different parts of speech, with their 

 classes and specifications. 



Syn'tax — Treats of the arrangement of words in sentences. 



Pros'ody — Treats of punctuation, utterance, figures, and versi- 

 fication. 



