n. a former president. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The outside or external covering. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Presided; p. pr. & vb. n. Presiding. ] [ L. praesidere; prae before + sedere to sit: cf. F. présider. See Sit. ] 1. To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exercise superintendence; to watch over. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some o'er the public magazines preside. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Presidency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Presidencies [ Cf. F. présidence. ] 1. The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Precedent. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His angels president
In every province. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. président, L. praesidens, -entis, p. pr. of praesidere. See Preside. ] 1. One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body. Specifically: (a) The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like. (b) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Just Apollo, president of verse. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Presiding or watching over. “Presidential angels.” Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who presides. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Resided; p. pr. & vb. n. Residing. ] [ F. résider, L. residere; pref. re- re- + sedere to sit. See Sit. ] 1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In no fixed place the happy souls reside. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. [ 1913 Webster ]

In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sink; to settle, as sediment. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To dwell; inhabit; sojourn; abide; remain; live; domiciliate; domicile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. résidence. See Resident. ] 1. The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. [ 1913 Webster ]

The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. “Near the residence of Posthumus.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Johnson took up his residence in London. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Eccl. Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The place where anything rests permanently. [ 1913 Webster ]

But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Subsidence, as of a sediment. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Domiciliation; sojourn; stay; abode; home; dwelling; habitation; domicile; mansion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Residence. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. résident, L. residens, -entis, p. pr. of residere. See Reside. ] 1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fixed; stable; certain. [ Obs. ] “Stable and resident like a rock.” Jer. TAylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

One there still resident as day and night. Davenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A resident. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Residing; residentiary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is resident. [ 1913 Webster ]

The residentiary, or the frequent visitor of the favored spot, . . . will discover that both have been there. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inhabitant; inhabiter; dweller; sojourner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. residentiaris. ] Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or condition of a residentiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or condition of a resident. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who resides in a place. [ 1913 Webster ]