Caucus /(?)/

1. A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.

   This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment.

imp. & p. p. Caucused; p. pr. & vb. n. Caucusing

1. To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.