Definition of gist

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Gist (n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question..

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Polling :: Polling (n.) The act of voting, or of registering a vote..
Lictor :: Lictor (n.) An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals..
Black Book :: Black book () A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies..
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
"""blue Book " :: Blue book () The United States official Biennial Register..
Register :: Register (v. i.) To enroll one's name in a register.
Enroll :: Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist..
Census :: Census (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country..
Album :: Album (n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
Office :: Office (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office..
Naos :: Naos (n.) A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.
Curule :: Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official..
Magistral :: Magistral (a.) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines..
Phytopathologist :: Phytopathologist (n.) One skilled in diseases of plants.
Stuttering :: Stuttering (n.) The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering..
Book :: Book (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc..
Ichthyophagist :: Ichthyophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, fish..
Stadtholderate :: Stadtholder (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province..
Indicated :: Indicated (a.) Shown; denoted; registered; measured.
Pretorian :: Pretorian (a.) Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority..
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