Noah Webster
Meeting
MEE'TING, participle present tense Coming together; encountering; joining; assembling.
MEE'TING, noun A coming together; an interview; as a happy meeting of friends.
1. An assembly; a congregation; a collection of people; a convention. The meeting was numerous; the meeting was clamorous; the meeting was dissolved at sunset.
2. A conflux, as of rivers; a joining, as of lines.