A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
The act of balancing on a log floating on a river to guide it downstream, often involving rolling it using one's feet; birling.
Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.
The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.
A sport in which two people balance on a log floating in a body of water, each one aiming to cause the opponent to fall off by rolling or kicking the log.
The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.
Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).
The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
Agreement; harmony.
A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.