| legislative assembly | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the bicameral legislature in 28 states of the US |
| 2. | the lower chamber of the bicameral state legislatures in several Commonwealth countries, such as Australia |
| 3. | the unicameral legislature in most Canadian provinces |
| 4. | any assembly with legislative powers |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |