# Dictionary

Topic: Compounding
Definition:
COMPOUNDING, ppr.  Uniting different substances in one body or mass; forming a mixed body; agreeing by concession, or abatement of demands; discharging a debt by agreement to pay less than the original sum, or in a different manner.


Topic: Comprehend
Definition:
COMPREHEND, v.t.  Literally, to take in; to take with, or together.
1.  To contain; to include; to comprise.
The empire of Great Britain comprehends England, Scotland and Ireland, with their dependencies.
2.  To imply; to contain or include by implication or construction.
If there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  Rom. 13.
3.  To understand; to conceive; that is, to take, hold or contain in the mind; to possess or to have in idea; according to the popular phrase, I take your meaning.
God doeth great things, which we cannot comprehend.  Job 37.
It is not always safe to disbelieve a proposition or statement, because we do not comprehend it.


Topic: Comprehensible
Definition:
COMPREHENSIBLE, a.
1.  That may be comprehended, or included; possible to be comprised.
2.  Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.


Topic: Comprehensibly
Definition:
COMPREHENSIBLY, adv.  With great extent of embrace, or comprehension; with large extent of signification; in a manner to comprehend a large circuit.
The words wisdom and righteousness are commonly used very comprehensibly, so as to signify all religion and virtue.
This word is rarely used.


Topic: Comprehension
Definition:
COMPREHENSION, n.
1.  The act or quality of comprehending, or containing; a comprising.
In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old.
2.  An including or containing within a narrow compass; a summary; an epitome or compend.
This wise and religious aphorism in the text, is the sum and comprehension of all the ingredients of human happiness.
3.  Capacity of the mind to understand; power of the understanding to receive and contain ideas; capacity of knowing.
The nature of spirit is not within our comprehension.
4.  In rhetoric, a grope or figure, by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.


Topic: Comprehensive
Definition:
COMPREHENSIVE, a.
1.  Having the quality of comprising much, or including a great extent; extensive; as a comprehensive charity; a comprehensive view.  It seems some times to convey the sense of comprehending much in a small compass.
2.  Having the power to comprehend or understand many things at once; as a comprehensive head.


Topic: Comprehensiveness
Definition:
COMPREHENSIVENESS, n. 
1. The quality of being comprehensive, or of including much extent; as the comprehensiveness of a view.
2. The quality of including much in a few words or narrow compass.
Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins.


Topic: Compress
Definition:
COMPRESS, v.t. [L. To press. See Press.]
1. To press together by external force; to force, urge or drive into a narrower compass; to crowd; as, to compress air.
The weight of a thousand atmospheres will compress water twelve and a half per cent.
2. To embrace carnally.
3. To crowd; to bring within narrow limits or space.
Events of centuries--compressed within the compass of a single life.
COMPRESS, n. In surgery, a bolster of soft linen cloth, with several folds, used by surgeons to cover a plaster or dressing, to keep it in its place and defend the part from the external air.


Topic: Compressed
Definition:
COMPRESSED, pp. 
1. Pressed or squeezed together; forced into a narrow or narrower compass; embraced carnally.
2. In botany, flatted; having the two opposite sides plane or flat; as a compressed stem.


Topic: Compressibility
Definition:
COMPRESSIBILITY, n. The quality of being compressible, or yielding to pressure; the quality of being capable of compression into a smaller space or compass; as the compressibility of elastic fluids, or of any soft substance.


Topic: Compressible
Definition:
COMPRESSIBLE, a. Capable of being forced or driven into a narrower compass; yielding to pressure; giving way to a force applied.
Elastic fluids are compressible.  Water is compressible in a small degree.


Topic: Compression
Definition:
COMPRESSION, n. 
1. The act of compressing, or of pressing into a narrower compass; the act of forcing the parts of a body into closer union, or density, by the application of force.
2. The state of being compressed.


Topic: Comprint
Definition:
COMPRINT, v.i. [See Print.] To print together. It is taken, in law, for the deceitful printing of anothers copy, or book, to the prejudice of the proprietor. [Little used.]


Topic: Comprise
Definition:
COMPRISE, v.t. [See Comprehend.] To comprehend; to contain; to include; as, the substance of a discourse may be comprised in a few words.


Topic: Compromise
Definition:
COMPROMISE, n. [L. To give bond to stand to an award, to promise. See Promise.]
1. A mutual promise or contract of two parties in controversy, to refer their differences to the decision of arbitrators.
2. An amicable agreement between parties in controversy, to settle their differences by mutual concessions.
3. Mutual agreement; adjustment.
[This is its usual signification.]
COMPROMISE, v.t.
1. To adjust and settle a difference by mutual agreement, with concessions of claims by the parties; to compound.
2. To agree; to accord.
3. To commit; to put to hazard; to pledge by some act or declaration.
[In this sense, see Compromit, which is generally used.]


Topic: Compromit
Definition:
COMPROMIT, v.t. [L., To promise.] To pledge or engage, by some act or declaration, which may not be a direct promise, but which renders necessary some future act.  Hence, to put to hazard, by some previous act or measure, which cannot be recalled; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.


Topic: Compt
Definition:
COMPT, n. Account; computation.
COMPT, v.t. To compute. [See Count.]
COMPT, a. [L.] Neat; spruce. [Not used.]


Topic: Comptonite
Definition:
COMPTONITE, n. A newly discovered mineral, found in drusy cavities of masses ejected from Mount Vesuvius; so called from Lord Compton, who brought it to England in 1818.


Topic: Comptroll
Definition:
COMPTROLL, from L., To count or compute, and a register.  If this word were of genuine origin, both the verb and its derivative, as applied to a public officer, would not be sense.  But there is no such legitimate word in English, nor in any other known language. [See Control.]


Topic: Compulsion
Definition:
COMPULSION, n. [L., See Compel.]
1. The act of driving or urging by force, physical or moral; force applied; constraint of the will; the application of a force that is irresistible.
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion.
A man is excused for acts done through unavoidable force and compulsion.
2. The state of being compelled or urged by violence.


Topic: Compulsive
Definition:
COMPULSIVE, a. Having power to compel; driving; forcing; constraining; applying force.
Uniformity of opinions cannot be effected by compulsive measures.


Topic: Compulsory
Definition:
COMPULSORY, a. Having the power or quality of compelling; applying force; driving by violence; constraining.
In the correction of vicious propensities, it may be necessary to resort to compulsory measures.


Topic: Compunction
Definition:
COMPUNCTION, n. [L. To prick or sting.]
1. A pricking; stimulation; irritation; seldom used in a literal sense.
2. A pricking of heart; poignant grief or remorse proceeding from a consciousness of guilt; the pain of sorrow or regret for having offended God, and incurred his wrath; the sting of conscience proceeding from a conviction of having violated a moral duty.
He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction.


Topic: Compunctious
Definition:
COMPUNCTIOUS, a. Pricking the conscience; giving pain for offenses committed.
Let no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose.


Topic: Compurgation
Definition:
COMPURGATION, n. [L., To purify.] In law, the act or practice of instifying a man by the oath of others who swear to their belief of his veracity; wager of law, in which a man who has given security to make his law, brings into court eleven of his neighbors, and having made oath himself that he does not owe the plaintiff, the eleven neighbors, called compurgators, avow on their oaths that they believe in their consciences he has affirmed the truth.


Topic: Compurgator
Definition:
COMPURGATOR, n. One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. [See Compurgation.]


Topic: Computation
Definition:
COMPUTATION, n. [L., See Compute.]
1. The act of computing, numbering, reckoning or estimating; the process by which different sums or particulars are numbered, estimated, or compared, with a view to ascertain the amount, aggregate, or other result depending on such sums or particulars.  We find by computation the quantity of provisions necessary to support an army for a year, and the amount of money to pay them; making the ration and pay of each man the basis of the computation.  By computations of time or years, we ascertain the dates of events.
2. The sum, quantity or amount ascertained by computing, or reckoning.
We pass for women of fifty; many additional years are thrown into female computations of this nature.
3. Calculation.


Topic: Compute
Definition:
COMPUTE, v.t. [L. To lop or prune; to think, count, reckon; to cast up.  The sense is probably to cast or throw together.]
1. To number; to count; to reckon; to cast together several sums or particulars, to ascertain the amount or aggregate.  Compute the quantity of water that will fill a vessel of certain dimensions, or that will cover the surface of the earth.  Compute the expenses of a campaign. Compute the time by weeks or days.
2. To cast or estimate in the mind; to estimate the amount by known or supposed data.
3. To calculate.


Topic: Comrade
Definition:
COMRADE, n., Literally, one who lodges in the same room.  Hence in a more general sense, a fellow, a mate or companion; an associate in occupation.


Topic: Con
Definition:
CON. A Latin inseparable preposition or prefix to other words.  Ainsworth remarks that con and cum habe the same signification, but that cum is used separately, and con in composition.  Con and cum may be radically distinct words.  The Irish comh, or coimh, is equivalent to the Latin con; and the Welsh cym, convertible into cyv, appears to be the same word, denoting, says Owen, a mutual act, quality or effect.  It is precisely equivalent to the Latin com, in comparo, compono, and the Latin com, in composition, may be the Celtic comh or cym.  But generally it seems to be con, changed into com.  Ainsworth deduces cum from the Greek; for originally it was written cyn.  But this is probably a mistake.
Con coincides in radical letters and in signification with the Teutonic gain, gen, gean, igen, igien, in the English again, against; Sax. Gean, ongean; sw. Igen; Dan. Igien.  Whatever may be its origin or affinities, the primary sense of the word is probably from some root that signifies to meet or oppose, or turn and meet; to approach to, or to be with.  This is the radical sense of most propositions of the like import.  See the English with, again.  So in Irish, coinne, a meeting; as coinne, opposite.
Con, in compounds, is change into l before l, as in colligo, to collect, and into m before a labial, as in comparo, to compare.  Before a vowel or h, the na is dropped; as in coalesco, to coalesce, to cooperate; cohibeo, to restrain.  I denotes union, as in conjoin; or opposition, as in conflict, contend.
CON, [abbreviated from Latin contra, against.] In the phrase, pro and con, for and against, con denotes the negative side of a question.  As a noun, a person who is in the negative; as the pros and cons.
CON, v.t. [to know, to be able, to be skillful or wise; and to bear or bring forth, Gr. To try, to attempt, to prove, L., whence cunning, skillful, experienced, or skill, experience; coincides in sense with to begin, to try to attempt. G. To know; to be able.  The primary sense is, to strain or stretch, which gives the sense of strength, power, as in can, and of holding, containing, comprehending, as contain, from contineo, teneo, Gr., L. To beget or to bring forth.  In the sense of know, con signifies to hold or to reach.]
1. To know.
I conne no skill.
 I shall not conne answer.  I shall not know or be able to answer.
2. To make ones self master of; to fix in the mend or commit to memory; as, to con a lesson.
To con thanks, to be pleased or obliged, or to thank.


Topic: Conatus
Definition:
CONATUS, n. 
1. Effort; attempt.
2. The tendency of a body towards any point, or to pursue its course in the same line of direction.


Topic: Concamerate
Definition:
CONCAMERATE, v.t. [L. To arch; an arch, arched roof, or chamber.] To arch over; to vault; to lay a concave over; as a concamerated bone.


Topic: Concatenate
Definition:
CONCATENATE, v.t. [L. A chain.] To link together; to unite in a successive series or chain, as things depending on each other.


Topic: Concatenation
Definition:
CONCATENATION, n. A series of links united; a successive series or order of things connected or depending on each other; as a concatenation of causes.


Topic: Concave
Definition:
CONCAVE, a. [L. Hollow. See Cave.]
1. Hollow, and arched or rounded, as the inner surface of a spherical body; opposed to convex; as a concave glass.
2. Hollow, in a general sense; as the concave shores of the Tiber.
3. In botany, a concave leaf is one whose edge stands above the disk.
CONCAVE, n. A hollow; an arch, or vault; as the ethereal concave.
CONCAVE, v.t. To make hollow.


Topic: Concavity
Definition:
CONCAVITY, n. Hollowness; the internal surface of a hollow spherical body, or a body of other figure; or the space within such body.


Topic: Conceal
Definition:
CONCEAL, v.t. [L. To withhold from sight,; G.,To conceal, and to heal; the primary sense is to strain, hold, stop, restrain, make fast or strong, all from the same root as the Shemitic.]
1. To keep close or secret; to forbear to disclose; to withhold from utterance or declaration; as, to conceal ones thoughts or opinions.
I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. Job 6.
2. To hide; to withdraw from observation; to cover or keep from sight.
What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?  Genesis 37.
A party of men concealed themselves behind a wall.  A mask conceals the face.


Topic: Concealing
Definition:
CONCEALING, ppr. Keeping close or secret; forbearing to disclose; hiding; covering.
CONCEALING, n. A hiding; a withholding from disclosure.


Topic: Concealment
Definition:
CONCEALMENT, n. 
1. Forbearance of disclosure; a keeping close or secret; as the concealment of opinions or passions.
2. The act of hiding, covering, or withdrawing from sight; as the concealment of the face by a mask, or of the person by any cover or shelter.
3. The state of being hid or concealed; privacy; as a project formed in concealment.
4. The place of hiding; a secret place; retreat from observation; cover from sight.
The cleft tree offers its kind concealment to a few, their food its insects, and its moss their nests.


Topic: Concede
Definition:
CONCEDE, v.t. [L. To yield, give way, depart, desist.]
1. To yield; to admit as true, just or proper; to grant; to let pass undisputed; as, this must not be conceded without limitation.  The advocate concedes the point in question.
2. To allow; to admit to be true.
We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms.


Topic: Conceded
Definition:
CONCEDED, pp. Yielded; admitted; granted; as, a question, proposition, fact or statement is conceded.


Topic: Conceit
Definition:
CONCEIT, n. [L., to take or seize.]
1. Conception; that which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image.
In laughing there ever precedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous, and therefore it is proper to man.
2. Understanding; power or faculty of conceiving; apprehension; as a man of quick conceit. [Nearly antiquated.]
How often did her eyes say to me, that they loved! Yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
3. Opinion; notion; fancy; imagination; fantastic notion; as a strange or odd conceit.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.  Proverbs 26.
4. Pleasant fancy; gayety of imagination.
On the way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.
5. A striking thought; affected or unnatural conception.
Some to conceit alone their works confine.
6. Favorable or self-flattering opinion; a lofty or vain conception of ones own person or accomplishments.
By a little study and a great conceit of himself, he has lost his religion.
Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; no longer pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress.  Hence to put one out of conceit with, is to make him indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.
CONCEIT, v.t. To conceive; to imagine; to think; to fancy.
The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, thereby rendered inactive.


Topic: Conceited
Definition:
CONCEITED, pp. 
1. Conceived; imagined; fancied.
2. Endowed with fancy, or imagination.
3. Entertaining a flattering opinion of ones self; having a vain or too high conception of ones own person or accomplishments; vain.
If you think me too conceited, or to passion quickly heated.
Followed by of before the object of conceit.
The Athenians were conceited of their own wit, science and politeness.


Topic: Conceitedness
Definition:
CONCEITEDNESS, n. The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity; an overweening fondness of ones own person or endowments.


Topic: Conceivable
Definition:
CONCEIVABLE, a. [See Conceive.]
1. That may be imagined, or thought; capable of being framed in the mind by the fancy or imagination.
If it were possible to contrive an invention, whereby any conceivable weight may be moved by any conceivable power.
2. That may be understood or believed.
It is not conceivable, that it should be the very person, whose shape and voice it assumed.


Topic: Conceive
Definition:
CONCEIVE, v.t. [L., to take.]
1. To receive into the womb, and breed; to begin the formation of the embryo or fetus of animal.
Then shall she be free and conceive seed. Numbers 5. Hebrew 11.
Elisabeth hath conceived a son in her old age.  Luke 1.
In sin did my mother conceive me. Psalm 51.
2. To form in the mind; to imagine; to devise.
They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity. Job 15.
Nebuchadnezzar hath conceived a purpose against you.  Jeremiah 49.
3. To form an idea in the mind; to understand; to comprehend.
We cannot conceive the manner in which spirit operates upon matter.
4. To think; to be of opinion; to have an idea; to imagine.
You can hardly conceive this man to have been bred in the same climate.
CONCEIVE, v.i. 
1. To have a fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
Thou shalt conceive and bear a son.  Judges 13.
2. To think; to have a conception or idea.
Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures.  The grieved commons hardly conceive of me.
3. To understand; to comprehend; to have a complete idea of; as, I cannot conceive by what means this event has been produced.


Topic: Conceiving
Definition:
CONCEIVING, ppr.  Forming a fetus in the womb; framing in the mind; imagining; devising; thinking; comprehending.
CONCEIVING, n. Apprehension; conception.
CONCEIVING, n. Apprehension; conception.


Topic: Concent
Definition:
CONCENT, n. [L. To sing.]
1. Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as a concent of notes.
2. Consistency; accordance; as, in concent to a mans own principles.


Topic: Concenter
Definition:
CONCENTER, v.i. [Gr., a goad, a sharp point, a center; to prick or goad. The primary sense is a point.] To come to a point, or to meet in a common center; used of converging lines, or other things that meet in a point.
All these are like so many lines drawn from several objets, that in some way relate to him, and concenter in him.
CONCENTER, v.t. To draw, or direct to a common center; to bring to a point; as two or more lines or other things.
The having a part less to animate, will serve to concenter the spirits, and make them more active in the rest.


Topic: Concentrate
Definition:
CONCENTRATE, v.t. [See Concenter.] 
1. To bring to a common center, or to a closer union; to cause to approach nearer to a point, or center; to bring nearer to each other; as, to concentrate particles of salt by evaporating the water that holds them in solution; to concentrate the troops in an army; to concentrate rays of light into a focus.
2. To increase the specific gravity of a body.


Topic: Concentrated
Definition:
CONCENTRATED, pp. Brought to a point or center; brought to a closer union; reduced to a narrow compass; collected into a closer body.


Topic: Concentrating
Definition:
CONCENTRATING, ppr. Bringing to a point or to closer union; collecting into a closer body, or narrow compass.


Topic: Concentration
Definition:
CONCENTRATION, n. The act of concentrating; the act of bringing nearer together; collection into a central point; compression into a narrow space; the state of being brought to a point.
Note. The verb concentrate is sometimes accented on the first syllable.  The reason is, with the primary accent on the first syllable, and a secondary accent on the third, the pronunciation of the participles, concentrating, concentrated, is much facilitated.


Topic: Concentric
Definition:
CONCENTRIC, a. [L., center.] Having a common center; as the concentric coats of an onion; the concentric orbits of the planets.


Topic: Conceptacle
Definition:
CONCEPTACLE, n. [L., See Conceive.]
1. That in which any thing is contained; a vessel; a receiver, or receptacle.
2. In botany, a follicle; a pericarp of one valve, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it.


Topic: Conception
Definition:
CONCEPTION, n. [L., See Conceive.]
1. The act of conceiving; the first formation of the embryo or fetus of an animal.
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.  Genesis 3.
2. The state of being conceived.
Joy had the like conception in our eyes.
3. In pneumatology, apprehension of nay thing by the mind; the act of conceiving in the mind; that mental act or combination of acts by which an idea or notion is formed of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation formerly felt.  When we see an object with our eyes open, we have a perception of it; when the same object is presented to the mind with the eyes shut, in idea only or in memory, we have a conception of it.
4. Conception may be sometimes used for the power of conceiving ideas, as when we say, a thing is not within our conception.  Some writers have defined conception as a distinct faculty of the mind; but it is considered by others as memory, and perhaps with propriety.
5. Purpose conceived; conception with reference to the performance of an act.
6. Apprehension; knowledge.
And as if beasts conceived what reason were, and that conception should distinctly show.
7. Conceit; affected sentiment, or thought.
He is too full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms.


Topic: Concern
Definition:
CONCERN, v.t. [L., to separate, sift, divide; to see.  If this is the true origin, as I suppose, the primary sense is, to reach or extend to, or to look to, as we use regard.]
1. To relate or belong to.
Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.  Acts 28.
2. To relate or belong to, in an emphatical manner; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
It much concerns us to secure the favor and protection of God.
3. To interest of affect the passions; to take an interest in; to engage by feeling or sentiment.
A good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. A kind parent concerns himself in the virtuous education of his children.  They 
They think themselves out of the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor.
4. To disturb; to make uneasy. [Little used.]
5. To intermeddle.
We need not concern ourselves with the affairs of our neighbors.
CONCERN, n. 
1. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair; a very general term, expressing whatever occupies the time and attention, or affects the interests of a person.  Intermeddle not in the private concerns of a family.  Religion is the main concern of a rational being.  We have no concern in the private quarrels of our neighbors.  The industrious and prudent occupy their time with their own concerns.
2. Interest; importance; moment; that which affects the welfare or happiness.
To live in peace, is a matter of no small concern to a nation.
Mysterious secrets of a high concern, and weighty truths, solid convincing sense, explained by unaffected eloquence.
3. Affection; regard; careful regard; solicitude; anziety.
Why all this concern for the poor things of this life?
O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns, and gentle wishes, follow me to battle.
An impenitent man feels no concern for his soul.
4. Persons connected in business; or their affairs in general; as a debt due to the whole concern; a loss affecting the whole concern.  Mercantile Usage.


Topic: Concerned
Definition:
CONCERNED, pp. or a.
1. Interested; engaged; having a connection with that which may affect the interest, welfare or happiness.
All men are concerned in the propagation of truth.
We are concerned in the virtuous education of our children.
2. Interested in business; having connection in business; as, A is concerned with B in the East India trade.  Of an advocate or counselor we say, he is concerned in the cause of A against B.
3. Regarding with care; solicitous; anxious; as, we are concerned for the fate of our fleet.


Topic: Concerning
Definition:
CONCERNING, ppr. Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to.
The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.  Numbers 10.
I have accepted thee concerning this thing.  Genesis 19.
This word has been considered a preposition, but most improperly; concerning, when so called, refers to a verb, sentence or proposition; as in the first example, the word applies to the preceding afirmation.  The Lord hath spoken good, which speaking good is concerning Israel.  Concerning, in this case, refers to the first clause of the sentence.


Topic: Concernment
Definition:
CONCERNMENT, n. 
1. The thing in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; business; interest.
To mix with thy concernments I desist.
Propositions which extend only to the present life, are small, compared with those that have influence upon our everlasting concernments.
The great concernment of men is with men.
2. A particular bearing upon the interest or happiness of one; importance; moment.
Experimental truths are matters of great concernment to mankind.
3. Concern; interposition; meddling; as, the father had no concernment in the marriage of his daughter.  In this sense, we generally use concern.
4. Emotion of mind; solicitude; as, their ambition is manifest in their concernment.  In this sense, concern is generally used.


Topic: Concert
Definition:
CONCERT, n. 
1. Agreement of two or more in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony.
The allies were frustrated for want of concert in their operations.
The Emperor and the Pope acted in concert.
2. A number or company of musicians, playing or singing the same piece of music at the same time; or the music of a company of players or singers, or of both united.
3. A singing in company.
4. Accordance; harmony.


Topic: Concession
Definition:
CONCESSION, n. [L. From concedo.  See Concede.]
1. The act of granting or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request from the party to whom it is made, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
The concession of these charters was in a parliamentary way.
2. The thing yielded; as, in the treaty of peace, each power made large concessions.
3. In rhetoric or debate, the yielding, granting, or allowing to the opposite party some point or face that may bear dispute, with a view to obtain something which cannot be denied, or to show that even admitting the point conceded, the cause is not with the adverse party, but can be maintained by the advocate on other grounds.
4. Acknowledgment by way of apology; confession of a fault.


Topic: Conchoidal
Definition:
CONCHOIDAL, a. In mineralogy, resembling a conch or marine shell; having convex elevations and concave depressions, like shells; as a conchoidal fracture.


Topic: Conchologist
Definition:
CONCHOLOGIST, n. One versed in the natural history of shells or shell-fish; one who studies the nature, properties and habits of shells and their included animals.


Topic: Conchylaceous
Definition:
CONCHYLACEOUS, a. [from conch.] Pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as conchylaceous impressions.


Topic: Conchyliologist
Definition:
CONCHYLIOLOGIST, CONCHYLIOLOGY, from L. Conchylium, a shell-fish, are sometimes used as synonyms of the preceding words; but they are words of inconvenient length, and useless.


Topic: Conciator
Definition:
CONCIATOR, n. In glass-works, the person who weighs and proportions the salt on ashes and sand, and who works and tempers them.


Topic: Conciliate
Definition:
CONCILIATE, v.t. [L. To draw or bring together, to unite; Gr. To call.  The primary sense of the root is to strain, stretch,, drive or draw.  Calling is a straining or driving of voice.  See Class Gl. No. 32. 36. 48. 49. And See Council.]
1. To lead or draw to, by moral influence or power; to win, gain or engae, as the affections, favor or good will; as, politeness and hospitality conciliate affection.
2. To reconcile, or bring to a state of friendship, as persons at variance.  We say, an attempt has been made to conciliate the contending parties.


Topic: Conciliating
Definition:
CONCILIATING, ppr. 
1. Winning; engaging; reconciling.
2. Winning; having the quality of gaining favor; as a conciliating address.


Topic: Conciliatory
Definition:
CONCILIATORY, a. Tending to conciliate, or reconcile; tending to make peace between persons at variance; pacific.
 The General made conciliatory propositions to the insurgents.
The Legislature adopted conciliatory measures.


Topic: Concinnity
Definition:
CONCINNITY, n. [L. Fit, to fit or prepare; to sound in accord.]
1. Fitness; suitableness; neatness. [Little used.]
2. A jingling of words.


Topic: Concinnous
Definition:
CONCINNOUS, a. [L. See Concinnity.] Fit; suitable; agreeable; becoming; pleasant; as a concinnous interval in music; a concinnous system.


Topic: Concise
Definition:
CONCISE, a. [L., cut off, brief, to cut. See Class Gd. No. 2. 4. 8. 49. 59.] Brief; short, applied to language or stile; containing few words; comprehensive; comprehending much in few words, or the principal matters only.
The concise stile, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood.
Where the author is too brief and concise, amplify a little.
In Genesis, we have a concise account of the creation.


Topic: Conciseness
Definition:
CONCISENESS, n. Brevity in speaking or writing.
Conciseness should not be studied at the expense of perspicuity.


Topic: Concision
Definition:
CONCISION, n. [L., to cut off.] Literally, a cutting off.  Hence, In scripture, the Jews or those who adhered to circumcision, which, after our Saviors death, was no longer a seal of the covenant, but a mere cutting of the flesh.
Beware of dogs; beware of the concision.  Philippians 3.


Topic: Conclave
Definition:
CONCLAVE, n. [L., an inner room; a key, or from the same root, to make fast.]
1. A private apartment, particularly the room in which the Cardinals of the Romish church meet in privacy, for the eletion of a Pope.  It consists of a range of small cells or apartments, standing in a line along the galleries and hall of the Vatican.
2. The assembly or meeting of the Cardinals, shut up for the election of a Pope.
3. A private meeting; a close assembly.


Topic: Conclude
Definition:
CONCLUDE, v.t. [L., to shut; Gr., contracted.  The sense is to stop, make fast, shut, or rather to thrust together.  Hence in Latin, claudo signifies to halt, or limp, that is, to stop, as well as to shut.  See Lid.]
1. To shut.
The very person of Christ--was only, touching bodily substance, concluded in the grave. [This use of the word is uncommon.]
2. To include; to comprehend.
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief.  Romans 11.
The scripture hath concluded all under sin.  Galatians 3.
The meaning of the word in the latter passage may be to declare irrevocably or to doom.
3. To collect by reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close an argument by inferring.
Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  Romans 3.
4. To decide; to determine; to make a final judgment or determination.
As touching the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing.  Romans 11.
5. To end; to finish.
I will conclude this part with the sppech of a counselor of state.
6. To stop or restrain, or as in law, to estop from further argument or proceedings; to oblige or bind, as by authority or by ones own argument or concession; generally in the passive.
If they will appeal to revelation for their creation, they must be concluded by it.
The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
I do not consider the decision of that motion, upon affidavits, to amount to a res judicata, which ought to conclude the present inquiry.
CONCLUDE, v.i. 
1. To infer, as a consequence; to determine.
The world will conclude I had a guilty conscience.
But this verb is really transitive.  The world will conclude that I ahd a guilty conscience--that is here the object, referring to the subsequent clause of the sentence. [See Verb Transitive, No.3.]
2. To settle opinion; to form a final judgment.
Can we conclude upon Luthers instability, as our author has done.
3. To end.
A train of lies, that, made in lust, conclude in perjuries.
The old form of expression, to conclude of, is no longer in use.


Topic: Concluding
Definition:
CONCLUDING, ppr. 
1. Shutting; ending; determining; inferring; comprehending.
2. Final; ending; closing; as the concluding sentence of an essay.


Topic: Conclusion
Definition:
CONCLUSION, n. [L.]
1. End; close; the last part; as the conclusion of an address.
2. The close of an argument, debate or reasoning; inference that ends the discussion; final result.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.  Ecclesiastes 12.
3. Determination; final decision.
After long debate, the house of commons came to this conclusion.
4. Consequence; inference; that which is collected or drawn from premises; particular deduction from propositions, facts, experience, or reasoning.
5. The event of experiments; experiment. 
We practice all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. [Little used.]
6. Confinement of the thoughts; silence. [Not used.]


Topic: Conclusive
Definition:
CONCLUSIVE, a. 
1. Final; decisive; as a conclusive answer to a proposition.
2. Decisive; giving a final determination; precluding a further act.
The agreeing votes of both houses were not, by any law or reason, conclusive to my judgment.
3. Decisive; concluding the question; putting an end to debate; as a conclusive argument.
4. Regularly consequential.
Men, not knowing the true forms of syllogisms, cannot know whether they are made in right and conlusive modes and figures.


Topic: Conclusively
Definition:
CONCLUSIVELY, adv. Decisively; with final determination; as, the point of law is conclusively settled.


Topic: Conclusiveness
Definition:
CONCLUSIVENESS, n. The quality of being conclusive, or decisive; the power of determining the opinion, or of settling a question; as the conclusiveness of evidence or of an argument.


Topic: Concoagulation
Definition:
CONCOAGULATION, n. A coagulating together, as different substances, or bodies, in one mass.  Crystalization of different slats in the same menstruum. [This word is little used.]


Topic: Concoct
Definition:
CONCOCT, v.t. [L., to cook.  See Cook.]
1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment.
The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted.
2. To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom.
3. To ripen.
Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting.


Topic: Concoction
Definition:
CONCOCTION, [L.]
1. Digestion or solution in the stomach; the process by which food is turned into chyle, or otherwise prepared ot nourish the body; the change which food undergoes in the stomach.
2. Maturation; the process by which morbid matter is separated from the blood or humors, or otherwise change and prepared to be thrown off.
3. A ripening; the acceleration of any thing towards perfection.


Topic: Concomitance
Definition:
CONCOMITANCE, n. [L., to accompany, a companion. See Count.] A being together, or in connection with another thing.
The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other.


Topic: Concomitant
Definition:
CONCOMITANT, a. Accompanying; conjoined with; concurrent; attending.
It has pleased our wise creator to annex to several objects--a concomitant pleasure.
CONCOMITANT, n. A companion; a person or thing that accompanies another, or is collaterally connected.  It is seldom applied to persons.
The other concomitant of ingratitude is hard-heartedness.
Reproach is a concomitant to greatness.


Topic: Concord
Definition:
CONCORD, n. [L., the heart. See Accord.]
1. Agreement between persons; union in opinions, sentiments, views or interests; peace; harmony.
What concord hath Christ with Belial? 2 Corinthians 6.
2. Agreement between things; suitableness; harmony.
If, natures concord broke, among the constellations war were sprung.
3. In music, consent of sounds; harmony; the relation between tow or more sounds which are agreeable to the ear. [See Chord.]
The man who hath not music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons.
4. A compact; an agreement by stipulation; treaty.
5. In law, an agreement between the parties in a fine, made by leave of the court.  This is an acknowledgment from the deforciants that the land in question is the right of the complainant.
6. In grammar, agreement of words in construction; as adjectives with nouns in gender, number and case; or verbs with nouns or pronouns in number and person.  Or concord may signify the system of rules for construction called syntax.
Form of concord, in ecclesiastical history, is a book among the Lutherans containing a system of doctrines to be subscribed as a condition of communion, composed at Torgaw in 1576.


Topic: Concordance
Definition:
CONCORDANCE, n. [L., to agree. See Concord.]
1. Agreement. In this sense, accordance is generally used.
2. In grammar, concord. [Not used.]
3. A dictionary_webster1828 in which the principal words used in the scriptures are arranged alphabetically, and the book, chapter and verse in which each word occurs are noted; designed to assist an inquirer in finding any passage of scripture, by means of any leading word in a verse which he can recollect.


Topic: Concordant
Definition:
CONCORDANT, a. Agreeing; agreeable; correspondent; harmonious.
CONCORDANT, n. That which is accordant.


Topic: Concordat
Definition:
CONCORDAT, n. In the canon law, a compact, covenant, or agreement concerning some beneficiary matter, as a resignation, permutation, promotion and the like.  In particular, an agreement made by a prince with the Pope relative to the collation of benefices; such as that between the Emperor Frederic III., the German princes, and the Popes legate, A.D. 1448.


Topic: Concorporate
Definition:
CONCORPORATE, v.t. [L., a body.] To unite different things in one mass or body; to incorporate. [Little used.]
CONCORPORATE, v.i. To unite in one mass or body.


Topic: Concourse
Definition:
CONCOURSE, n. [L., to run together, to run.]
1. A moving, flowing or running together; confluence; as a fortuitous concourse of atoms; a concourse of men.
2. A meeting; an assembly of men; an assemblage of things; a collection formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place. Acts 19.
3. The place or point of meeting, or a meeting; the point of junction of two bodies.
The drop will begin to move towards the concourse of the glasses. [This application is unusual.]


Topic: Concreate
Definition:
CONCREATE, v.t. To create with, or at the same time.
Dr. Taylor-insists that it is inconsistent with the nature of virtue, that it should be concreated with any person.


Topic: Concremation
Definition:
CONCREMATION, n. [L., to burn together; to burn.] The act of burning different things together. [Little used.]


Topic: Concrement
Definition:
CONCREMENT, n. [L., to grow together. See Concrete.] A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union.


Topic: Concrescence
Definition:
CONCRESCENCE, n. [L. See Concrete.] Growth or increase; the act of growing or increasing by spontaneous union, or the coalescence of separate particles.


Topic: Concrescible
Definition:
CONCRESCIBLE, a. Capable of concreting; that may congeal or be changed from a liquid to a solid state.
They formed a genuine, fixed, concrescible oil.


Topic: Concrete
Definition:
CONCRETE, a. [L., to grow together, to grow. See Grow.]
1. Literally, united in growth.  Hence, formed by coalition of separate particles in one body; consistent in a mass; united in a solid form.
The first concrete state or consistent surface of the chaos.
2. In logic, applied to a subject; not abstract; as the whiteness of snow.  Here whiteness is used as a concrete term, as it expresses the quality of snow.
Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to a subject to which they belong.
A concrete number expresses or denotes a particular subject, as three men; but when we use a number without reference to a subject, as three, or five, we use the term in the abstract.
CONCRETE, n.
1. A compound; a mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
Gold is a porous concrete.
2. In philosophy, a mass or compound body, made up of different ingredients; a mixed body or mass.
Soap is a factutious concrete.
3. In logic, a concrete term; a term that includes both the quality and the subject in which it exists; as nigrum, a black thing.
CONCRETE, v.i. To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body, chiefly by spontaneous cohesion, or other natural process; as saline particles concrete into crystals; blood concretes in a bowl.  Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body.  Applied to other substances, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate,, coagulate; as in the concretion of blood.
CONCRETE, v.t. To form a mass by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.


Topic: Concretely
Definition:
CONCRETELY, adv. In a concrete manner; in a manner to include the subject with the predicate; not abstractly.


Topic: Concretion
Definition:
CONCRETION, n. 
1. The act of concreting; the process by which soft or fluid bodies become thick, consistent, solid or hard; the act of growing together, or of uniting, by other natural process, the small particles of matter into a mass.
2. The mass or solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation or induration; a clot; a lump; a solid substance formed in the soft parts or in the cavities of animal bodies.


Topic: Concretive
Definition:
CONCRETIVE, a. Causing to concrete; having power to produce concretion; tending to form a solid mass from separate particles; as, concretive juices.


Topic: Concubinage
Definition:
CONCUBINAGE, n. [See Concubine.] The act or practice of cohabiting, as man and woman, in sexual commerce, without the authority of law, or a legal marriage.  In a more general sense, this word is used to express any criminal or prohibited sexual commerce, including adultery, incest, and fornication.  In some countries, concubinage is a marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition, to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality.  This is said to be still in use in Germany.  
In law, concubinage is used as an exception against her that sueth for dower; in which it is alledged that she was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.


Topic: Concubine
Definition:
CONCUBINE, n. [L., to lie together, to lie down.]
1. A woman who cohabits with a man, without the authority of a legal marriage; a woman kept for lewd purposes; a kept mistress.
2. A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition.  Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws.


Topic: Concupiscence
Definition:
CONCUPISCENCE, n. [L., to covet or lust after, to desire or covet.] Lust; unlawful or irregular  desire of sexual pleasure.  In a more general sense, the coveting of carnal things, or an irregular appetite for worldly good; inclination for unlawful enjoyments.
We know even secret concupiscence to be sin.
Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. Romans 7.


Topic: Concupiscible
Definition:
CONCUPISCIBLE, a. Exciting or impelling to the enjoyment of carnal pleasure; inclining to the attainment of pleasure or good; as concupiscible appetite.


Topic: Concur
Definition:
CONCUR, v.i. [L., to run together.]
1. To meet in the same point; to agree.
Reason and sense concur.
2. To agree; to join or unite, as in one action or opinion; to meet, mind with mind; as, the two houses of parliament concur in the measure.
It has with before the person with whom one agrees.
Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion.
It has to before the effect.
Extremes in man concur to general use.
3. To unite or be conjoined, with the consequential sense of aiding, or contributing power or influence to a common object.
Various causes may concur in the changes of temperature.


Topic: Concurrence
Definition:
CONCURRENCE, n. 
1. A meeting or coming together; union; conjunction.
We have no other measure but of our own ideas, with the concurrence of other probable reasons, to persuade us.
2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design; implying joint approbation.
Tarquin the proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people.
3. A meeting or conjunction, whether casual or intended; combination of agents, circumstances or events.
Struck with these great concurrences of things.
4. Agreement; consent; approbation. See No. 2.
5. Agreement or consent, implying joint aid or contribution of power or influence.
From these sublime images we collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it.
6. A meeting, as of claims, or power; joint rights; implying equality in different persons or bodies; as a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.


Topic: Concurrent
Definition:
CONCURRENT, a. 
1. Meeting; uniting; accompanying; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event or effect; operating with.
I join with these laws the personal presence of the Kings son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
All combined, your beauty, and my impotence of mind, and his concurrent flame, that blew my fire.
2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant.
There is no difference between the concurrent echo and the iterant, but the quickness or slowness of the return.
3. Joint and equal; existing together and operating on the same objects.  The courts of the United States, and those of the States have, in some cases, concurrent jurisdiction.
CONCURRENT, n. That which concurs; joint or contributory cause.
To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents-time, industry and faculties.


Topic: Concurring
Definition:
CONCURRING, ppr. Meeting in the same joint; agreeing; running or acting together; uniting in action; contributing to the same event or effect; consenting.
A concurring figure, in geometry, is one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which corresponds with it in all its parts.


Topic: Concussion
Definition:
CONCUSSION, n. [L., to shake, or shatter.  The primary sense is to beat, to strike, or to beat in pieces, to bruise, to beat down.]
1. The act of shaking, particularly and properly, by the stoke or impulse of another body.
It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air, which may be from the concussion of the air.
2. The state of being shaken; a shock; as the concussion of the brain by a stroke.  It is used also for shaking or agitation in general; as the concussion of the earth.


Topic: Condemn
Definition:
CONDEMN, v.t. [L., to condemn, to disapprove, to doom, to devote.]
1. To pronounce to be utterly wrong; to utter a sentence of disapprobation against; to censure; to blame. But the word often expresses more than censure or blame, and seems to include the idea of utter rejection; as, to condemn heretical opinions; to condemn ones conduct.
We condemn mistakes with asperity, where we pass over sins with gentleness.
2. To determine or judge to be wrong, or guilty; to disallow; to disapprove.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence towards God. I John 3.
3. To witness against; to show or prove to be wrong, or guilty, by a contrary practice.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.  Matthew 12.
4. To pronounce to be guilty; to sentence to punishment; to utter sentence against judicially; to doom; opposed to acquit or absolve; with to before the penalty.
The son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death. Matthew 20.
He that believeth on him is not condemned. John 3.
5. To doom or sentence to pay a fine; to fine.
And the king of Egypt--condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Chronicles 36.
6. To judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; as, the ship was condemned as not sea-worthy.  To judge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.


Topic: Condemnation
Definition:
CONDEMNATION, n. 
1. The act of condemning; the judicial act of declaring one guilty, and dooming him to punishment.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation. Romans 5.
2. The state of being condemned.
Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation. Luke 23.
3. The cause or reason of a sentence of condemnation. John 3.


Topic: Condemned
Definition:
CONDEMNED, pp. Censures; pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment.


Topic: Condemning
Definition:
CONDEMNING, ppr. Censuring; disallowing; pronouncing to be wrong, guilty, worthless or forfeited; sentencing to punishment.


Topic: Condensable
Definition:
CONDENSABLE, a. [See Condense.] Capable of being condensed; that may be compressed into a smaller compass, and into a more close, compact state; as, vapor is condensable.


Topic: Condensate
Definition:
CONDENSATE, v.t. [See Condense.] To condense; to compress into a closer form to cause to take a more compact state; to make more dense.
CONDENSATE, v.i. To become more dense, close or hard.
CONDENSATE, a. Made dense; condensed; made more close or compact.


Topic: Condensation
Definition:
CONDENSATION, a. [L. See Condense.] The act of making more dense or compact; or the act of causing the parts that compose a body to approach or unite more closely, either by mechanical pressure, or by a natural process; the state of being condensed.  Dew and clouds are supposed to be formed by the condensation of vapor.  It is opposed to rarefaction and expansion.  Condensation is applicable to any compressible matter; and from condensation proceeds increased hardness, solidity, and weight.


Topic: Condense
Definition:
CONDENSE, v.t. [L., to make thick or close. See Dense.]
1. To make more close, thick or compact; to cause the particles of a body to approach, or to unite more closely, either by their own attraction or affinity, or by mechanical force.  Thus, vapor is said to be condensed into water by the application of cold; and air is condensed in a tube by pressure.  Hence the word is sometimes equivalent to compress.
2. To make thick; to inspissate; applied to soft compressible substances.
3. To compress into a smaller compass, or into a close body; to crowd; applied to separate individuals.  Thus we say to condense ideas into a smaller compass.
CONDENSE, v.i. To become close or more compact, as the particles of a body; to approach or unite more closely; to grow thick.
Vapors condense and coalesce into small parcels.
CONDENSE, a. Close in texture or composition; compact; firm; dense; condensated. [See Dense, which is generally used.]


Topic: Condensed
Definition:
CONDENSED, pp. Made dense, or more close in parts; made or become compact; compressed into a narrower compass.


Topic: Condenser
Definition:
CONDENSER, n. He or that which condenses; particularly a pneumatic engine or syringe in which air may be compressed. It consists of a cylinder, in which is a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent the air from escaping.


Topic: Conder
Definition:
CONDER, n. [L. See Cond.]
1. A person who stands upon a cliff, or elevated part of the sea-coast, in the time of the herring fishery, to point out to the fishermen by signs, the source of the shoals of fish.
2. One who gives directions to a helmsman how to steer the ship.


Topic: Condescend
Definition:
CONDESCEND, v.i. [L. See Descend.]
1. To descend from the privileges of superior rank or dignity, to do some act to an inferior, which strict justice or the ordinary rules of civility do not require.  Hence, to submit or yield, as to an inferior, implying an occasional relinquishment of distinction.
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Romans 12.
2. To recede from ones rights in negotiation, or common intercourse, to do some act, which strict justice does not require.
Spains mighty monarch, in gracious clemency does condescend, on these conditions, to become your friend.
3. To stoop or descend; to yield; to submit; implying a relinquishment of rank, or dignity of character, and sometimes a sinking into debasement.
Can they think me so broken, so debased, with corporal servitude, that my mind ever will condescend to such absurd commands?


Topic: Condescendence
Definition:
CONDESCENDENCE, n. A voluntary yielding or submission to an inferior.
You will observe [in the Turks] an insulting condescendence which bespeaks their contempt of you.


Topic: Condescending
Definition:
CONDESCENDING, ppr. 
1. Descending from rank or distinction in the intercourse of life; receding from rights or claims; yielding.
2. Yielding to inferiors; courteous; obliging.


Topic: Condescendingly
Definition:
CONDESCENDINGLY, adv. By way of yielding to inferiors; with voluntary submission; by way of kind concession; courteously.


Topic: Condescension
Definition:
CONDESCENSION, n. Voluntary descent from rank, dignity or just claims; relinquishment of strict right; submission to inferiors in granting requests or performing acts which strict justice does not require.  Hence, courtesy.
It forbids pride and commands humility, modesty and condescension to others.
Raphael, amidst his tenderness, shows such a dignity and condescension in all his behavior, as are suitable to a superior nature.


Topic: Condign
Definition:
CONDIGN, a. [L., worthy. See Dignity.]
1. Deserved; merited; suitable; applied usually to punishment; as, the malefactor has suffered condign punishment.
2. Worthy; merited; as condign praise. 
       [In the latter sense, seldom used.]


Topic: Condignity
Definition:
CONDIGNITY, n. Merit; desert. In school divinity, the merit of human actions which claims reward, on the score of justice.


Topic: Condiment
Definition:
CONDIMENT, n. [L., to season, pickle or preserve.] Seasoning; sauce; that which is used to give relish to meat or other food, and to gratify the taste.
As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment.


Topic: Condisciple
Definition:
CONDISCIPLE, n. [L. See Disciple.] A school fellow; a learner in the same school, or under the same instructor.


Topic: Condite
Definition:
CONDITE, v.t. [L.] To prepare and preserve with sugar, salt, spices, or the like; to pickle; as, to condite peras, plums, quinces, mushrooms, &c. [Little used.]


Topic: Conditement
Definition:
CONDITEMENT, n. A composition of conserves, powders, and spices, in the form of an electuary. [Little used.]


Topic: Condition
Definition:
CONDITION, n. [L., to build or make, to ordain; properly, to set or fix, or to set together or in order; con and do, to give; properly, to send.]
1. State; a particular mode of being; applied to external circumstances, to the body, to the mind, and to things.  We speak of a good condition or a bad condition, in reference to wealth and poverty; in reference to health and sickness; in reference to a cheerful or depressed disposition of mind; and with reference to a sound or broken, perishing state of things.  The word signifies a setting or fixing, and has a very general and indefinite application, coinciding nearly with state, from sto, to stand, and denotes that particular frame, form, mode or disposition, in which a thing exists, at any given time.  A man is in a good condition, when he is thriving.  A nation, with an exhausted treasury and burthened with taxes, is not in a condition to make war.  A poor man is in a humble condition.  Religion affords consolation to man in every condition of life.  Exhortations should be adapted to the condition of the mind.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
2. Quality; property; attribute.
It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and belongs to be hidden and unseen to others.
3. State of mind; temper; temperament; complexion. [See No. 1.]
4. Moral quality; virtue or vice.
[These senses however fall within the first definition.]
5. Rank, that is, state with respect to the orders or grades of society, or to property; as, persons of the best condition.
6. Terms of a contract or covenant; stipulation; that is, that which is set, fixed, established or proposed. What are the conditions of the treaty?
Make our conditions with yon captive king.
He sendeth and desireth conditions of peace. Luke 14.
7. A clause in a bond, or other contract containing terms or a stipulation that it is to be performed, and in case of failure, the penalty of the bond is to be incurred.
8. Terms given, or provided, as the ground of something else; that which is established, or to be done, or to happen, as requisite to another act; as, I will pay a sum of money, on condition you will engage to refund it.
A condition is a clause of contingency, on the happening of which the estate granted may be defeated.
CONDITION, v.i. To make terms; to stipulate.
It is one thing to condition for a good office, and another to execute it.
CONDITION, v.t. To contract; to stipulate.
It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.


Topic: Conditional
Definition:
CONDITIONAL, a. 
1. Containing or depending on a condition or conditions; made with limitations; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms.  A conditional promise is one which is to be performed, when something else stipulated is done or has taken place.  A conditional fee, in law, is one which is granted upon condition, that if the donee shall die without such particular heirs as are specified, the estate shall revert to the donor.  Hence it is a fee restrained to particular heirs, to the exclusion of others.
2. In grammar and logic, expressing a condition or supposition; as a conditional word, mode, or tense; a conditional syllogism.
CONDITIONAL, n. A limitation.


Topic: Conditionally
Definition:
CONDITIONALLY, adv. With certain limitations; on particular terms or stipulations; not absolutely or positively.
We see large preferments tendered to him, but conditionally, upon his doing wicked offices.


Topic: Conditionate
Definition:
CONDITIONATE, a. Conditional; established on certain terms. [Not used.]
CONDITIONATE, v.t. To qualify; to regulate. [Not in use.]


Topic: Conditioned
Definition:
CONDITIONED, pp. 
1. Stipulated; containing terms to be performed.
2. a. Having a certain state or qualities.  This word is usually preceded by some qualifying term; as good-conditioned; ill-conditioned; best-conditioned.


Topic: Condole
Definition:
CONDOLE, v.i. [L., to ache, or to grieve.] To feel pain, or to grieve, at the distress or misfortunes of another. 
Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you.
It is followed by with before the person for whom we feel grief.
CONDOLE, v.t. To lament or bewail with another, or on account of anothers misfortune. [Unusual.]
Why should our poet petition Isis for her safe delivery, and afterwards condole her miscarriage?


Topic: Condoma
Definition:
CONDOMA, n. An animal of the goat kind, as large as a stag, and of a gray color.
It is a species of Antelope, the A. Strepsiceros.


Topic: Condor
Definition:
CONDOR, n. The largest species of fowl hitherto discovered; a native of South America.  Some naturalists class it with the vulture; others, with the eagle.  The wings of the largest, when expanded, are said to extend 15 or 18 feet; and the fowl has strength to bear off a calf or a deer.
The size of the Condor has been greatly exaggerated.  It is about the size of the Lammer-geyer or vulture of the Alps, which it resembles in its habits.  It is properly a vulture.


Topic: Conduce
Definition:
CONDUCE, v.i. [L., to lead.] To lead or tend; to contribute; followed by to. 
They may conduce to farther discoveries for completing the theory of light.
To conduce to includes the sense of aiding, tending to produce, or furnishing the means; hence it is sometimes equivalent to promote, advance, or further.  Virtue conduces to the welfare of society.  Religion conduces to temporal happiness.  Temperance conduces to health and long life.
In the transitive sense, to conduct, it is not authorized.


Topic: Conducible
Definition:
CONDUCIBLE, a. [L.] Leading or tending to; having the power of conducing; having a tendency to promote or forward.
Our Savior hath enjoined us a reasonable service; all his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. 
[This word is less used than conducive.]


Topic: Conducive
Definition:
CONDUCIVE, a. That may conduce or contribute; having a tendency to promote.
An action, however conducive to the good of our country, will be represented as prejudicial to it.


Topic: Conduct
Definition:
CONDUCT, n. [L., to lead. See Duke.]
1. Literally, the act of leading; guidance; command.  So Waller has used it.
Conduct of armies is a princes art.
2. The act of convoying, or guarding; guidance or brining along under protection.
3. Guard on the way; convoy; escort.
[These senses are now unusual, though not improper.]
4. In a general sense, personal behavior; course of actions; deportment; applicable equally to a good or a bad course of actions; as laudable conduct; detestable conduct.  The word seems originally to have been followed with life, actions, affairs, or other term; as the conduct of life; the conduct of actions; that is, the leading along of life or actions.
Young men in the conduct and manage of actions embrace more than they can hold.
What in the conduct of our life appears.
But by custom, conduct alone is now used to express the idea of behavior or course of life and manners.
5. Exact behavior; regular life. [Unusual.]
6. Management; mode of carrying on.
Christianity has humanized the conduct of war.
7. The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College in England.
CONDUCT, v.t. 
1. To lead; to bring along; to guide; to accompany and show the way.
 And Judah came to Gilgal--to conduct the king over Jordan. 2 Samuel 19.
2. To lead; to direct or point out the way.
The precepts of Christ will conduct us to happiness.
3. To lead; to usher in; to introduce; to attend in civility.
Pray receive them nobly, and conduct them into our presence.
4. To give a direction to; to manage; applied to things; as, the farmer conducts his affairs with prudence.
5. To lead, as a commander; to direct; to govern; to command; as, to conduct an army or a division of troops.
6. With the reciprocal pronoun, to conduct ones self, is to behave.  Hence, by a customary omission of the pronoun, to conduct, in an intransitive sense, is to behave; to direct personal actions. [See the Noun.]
7. To escort; to accompany and protect on the way.


Topic: Conduction
Definition:
CONDUCTION, n. 
1. The act of training up. [Not in use.]
2. Transmission through or by means of a conductor.


Topic: Conductor
Definition:
CONDUCTOR, n. 
1. A leader; a guide; one who goes before or accompanies, and shows the way.
2. A chief; a commander; one who leads an army or a people.
3. A director; a manager.
4. In surgery, an instrument which serves to direct the knife in cutting for the stone, and in laying up sinuses and fistulas; also, a machine to secure a fractured limb.
5. In electrical experiments, any body that receives and communicates electricity; such as metals and moist substances.  Bodies which repel it, or into which it will not pass, are called non-conductors. Hence, 
6. A metallic rod erected by buildings or in ships, to conduct lightning to the earth or water, and protect the building from its effects.


Topic: Conduit
Definition:
CONDUIT, n. [L., to conduct.]
1. A canal or pipe for the conveyance of water; an aqueduct. Conduits are made of lead, stone, cast iron, wood, &c., above or below the surface of the earth.
2. A vessel that conveys the blood or other fluid.
The conduits of my blood.
3. A conductor.
These organs are the nerves which are the conduits to convey them from without to their audience in the brain.
4. A pipe or cock for drawing off liquor.
5. Any channel that conveys water or fluids; a sink, sewer or drain.


Topic: Conduplicate
Definition:
CONDUPLICATE, a. [L., to double or fold. See Double.] Doubled or folded over or together; as the leaves of a bud.
CONDUPLICATE, v.t. To double; to fold together.


Topic: Condyloid
Definition:
CONDYLOID, a. [Gr., and form.] The condyloid process is the posterior protuberance at the extremities of the under jaw; an oblong rounded head, which is received into the fossa of the temporal bone, forming a movable articulation.  The anterior is called the coronoid process.
CONDYLOID, n. The apophysis of a bone; the projecting soft end, or process of a bone.


Topic: Cone
Definition:
CONE, n. [It coincides in radical sense with the root of can and begin.]
1. A solid body or figure having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex, like a sugar loaf.
2. In botany, the conical fruit of several evergreen trees, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress.  It is composed of woody scales, usually opening , and has a seed at the base of each scale.
A cone of rays, in optics, includes all the rays of light which proceed from a radiant point and fall upon the surface of a glass.
A right cone, is when its axis is perpendicular to its base, and its sides equal.  It is formed by the revolution of a right-angle plane triangle about one of its sides.
A scalene cone, is when its axis is inclined to its base and its sides unequal.


Topic: Conepate
Definition:
CONEPATE, CONEPATL, n. An animal of the weasel kind in America, resembling the pole-cat in form and size, and its fetid stench.


Topic: Confabulate
Definition:
CONFABULATE, v.i. [L., to tell. See Fable.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
If birds confabulate or no. [Little used.]


Topic: Confabulation
Definition:
CONFABULATION, n. [L.] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [Not an elegant word, and little used.]


Topic: Confarreation
Definition:
CONFARREATION, n. [L., to join in marriage with a cake, corn or meal.] The solemnization of marriage among the Romans, by a ceremony in which the bridegroom and bride tasted a cake made  of flour with salt and water, called far or panis farreus, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.


Topic: Confect
Definition:
CONFECT, v.t. To make sweetmeats. [Not used. See Comfit.]
CONFECT, n. [L., See Comfit.] Something prepared with sugar or honey, as fruit, hergs, roots and the like; a sweet-meat.


Topic: Confection
Definition:
CONFECTION, n. [L., to make.]
1. Any thing prepared with sugar, as fruit; a sweetmeat; something preserved. 
2. A composition or mixture.
3. A soft electuary.


Topic: Confectionary
Definition:
CONFECTIONARY, CONFECTIONER, n. One whose occupation is to make, or to sell sweetmeats, &c. [The latter word is most generally used.]


Topic: Confector
Definition:
CONFECTOR, n. [L.] An officer in the Roman games, whose business was to kill any beast that was dangerous.


Topic: Confederacy
Definition:
CONFEDERACY, n. [L., a league. See Federal and Wed.]
1. A league, or covenant; a contract between two or more persons, bodies of men or states, combined in support of each other, in some act or enterprise; mutual engagement; federal compact. 
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice. A confederacy of princes to check innovation.
2. The persons, states or nations united by a league.
Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.
3. In law, a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act.
 


Topic: Confederate
Definition:
CONFEDERATE, a. [L.]  United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy.
These were confederate with Abram.  Genesis 14.
Syria is confederate with Ephraim. Isaiah 7.


Topic: Confederation
Definition:
CONFEDERA'TION, [L.]
1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance; particularly of princes, nations or states. 
The three princes enter into a strict league and confederation.
2. The United States of America are sometimes called the confederation.


Topic: Confer
Definition:
CONFER', v.i. [L., to bear, to bring forth, to show, to declare. See Bear.] To discourse; to converse; to consult together; implying conversation on some serious or important subject, in distinction from mere talk or light familiar conversation; followed by with.
Adonijah conferred with Joab and Abiathar. I Kings 1.
Festus conferred with the council. Acts 25.
CONFER', v.t. 
1. To give, or bestow; followed by on.
Coronation confers on the king no royal authority.
This word is particularly used to express the grant of favors, benefits and privileges to be enjoyed, or rights which are to be permanent; as, to confer on one the privileges of a citizen; to confer a title or an honor.
2. To compare; to examine by comparison; literally, to bring together. [See Compare.]
If we confer these observations with others of the like nature.
[This sense, though genuine, is now obsolete.]
3. To contribute; to conduce to; that is, to bring to.  The closeness of parts confers much to the strength of the union, or intransitively, confers to the strength of the union.


Topic: Conference
Definition:
CON'FERENCE, n. [See Confer.]
1. The act of conversing on a serious subject; a discoursing between two or more, for the purpose of instruction, consultation, or deliberation; formal discourse; oral discussion.
For they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me. Galatians 2.
The ministers had a conference at Ratisbon.
2. A meeting for consultation, discussion or instruction.
3. Comparison; examination of things by comparison.
The mutual conference of observations.  The conference of different passages of scripture.
[This sense is, I believe, now obsolete.]


Topic: Confess
Definition:
CONFESS', v.t.[L., to own or acknowledge.]
1. To own, acknowledge or avow, as a crime, a fault, a charge, a debt, or something that is against one's interest, or reputation.
Human faults with human grief confess.
I confess the argument against me is good and not easily refuted.
let us frankly confess our sins.
'Confess thee freely of thy sins,' used by Shakespeare, is not legitimate, unless in the sense of Catholics.
2. In the Catholic Church, to acknowledge sins and faults to a priest; to disclose the state of the conscience to a priest, in private, with a view to absolution; sometimes with the reciprocal pronoun.
The beautiful votary confessed herself to this celebrated father.
3. To own, avow or acknowledge; publicly to declare a belief in and adherence to.
Whoever shall confess me before men. Matthew 10.
4. To own and acknowledge, as true disciples, friends or children.
Him will I confess before my father who is heaven.
5. To own; to acknowledge; to declare to be true, or to admit or assent to in words; opposed to deny.
Then will I confess to thee, that thine own right hand can save thee. Job 11.
These-- confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. Hebrews 11.
6. To show by the effect; to prove; to attest.
Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold.
7. To hear or receive the confession of another; as, the priest confessed the nuns.
CONFESS', v.i. To make confession; to disclose faults, or the state of the conscience; as, this man went to the priest to confess.


Topic: Confessed
Definition:
CONFESS'ED, pp. Owned; acknowledged; declared to be true; admitted in words; avowed; admitted to disclose to a priest.


Topic: Confessedly
Definition:
CONFESS'EDLY, adv. 
1. By confession, or acknowledgment; avowedly; undeniably.  Demosthenes was confessedly the greatest orator in Greece.
2. With avowed purpose; as, his object was confessedly to secure to himself a benefice.


Topic: Confessing
Definition:
CONFESS'ING, ppr. Owning; avowing; declaring to be true or real; granting or admitting by assent; receiving disclosure of sins, or the state of the conscience of another.


Topic: Confession
Definition:
CONFES'SION, n. 
1. The acknowledgment of a crime, fault or something to one's disadvantage; open declaration of guilt, failure, debt, accusation, &c.
With the mouth confession is made to salvation. Romans 10.
2. Avowal; the act of acknowledging; profession.
Who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. 1 Timothy 6.
3. The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest; the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor; sometimes called auricular confession.
4. A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission into a church.
5. The acknowledgment of a debt by a debtor before a justice of the peace, &c., on which judgment is entered and execution issued.


Topic: Confessional
Definition:
CONFES'SIONAL, n. The seat where a priest or confessor sits to hear confessions; a confession-chair.


Topic: Confessionary
Definition:
CONFES'SIONARY, n. A confession-chair, as above.
CONFES'SIONARY, a. Pertaining to auricular confession.


Topic: Confessor
Definition:
CONFESS'OR, n. 
1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges his sins.
2. One who makes a profession of his faith in the Christian religion.  The word is appropriately used to denote one who avows his religion in the face of danger, and adheres to it, in defiance of persecution and torture.  It was formerly used as synonymous with martyr; afterwards it was applied to those who, having been persecuted and tormented, were permitted to die in peace.  It was used also for such Christians as lived a good life, and died with the reputation of sanctity.
3. A priest; one who hears the confessions of others, and has power to grant them absolution.


Topic: Confide
Definition:
CONFI'DE, v.t. [L., to trust. See Faith.] To trust; to rely on, with a persuasion of faithfulness or veracity in the person trusted or of the reality of a fact; to give credit to ; to believe in, with assurance; followed by in.  The prince confides in his ministers.  The minister confides in the strength and resources of the nation.  we confide in the veracity of the sacred historians.  We confide in the truth of a report.
CONFI'DE, v.t. To entrust; to commit to the charge of, with a belief in the fidelity of the person entrusted; to deliver into possession of another, with assurance of safe keeping, or good management; followed by to.  We confide a secret to a friend.  The prince confides a negotiation to his envoy.  The common interests of the United States are confided to the Congress.
They would take the property out of the hands of those to whom it was confided by the charter.
Congress may, under the constitution, confide to the circuit court, jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States.


Topic: Confided
Definition:
CONFI'DED, pp. Entrusted; committed to the care of, for preservation, or for performance or exercise.


Topic: Confidence
Definition:
CON'FIDENCE, n. [L. See Confide.]
1. A trusting, or reliance; an assurance of mind or firm belief in the integrity, stability or veracity of another, or in the truth and reality of a fact.
It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man.  Psalm 118.
I rejoice that I have confidence in you in all things. 2 Corinthians 7.
Mutual confidence is the basis of social happiness.
I place confidence in a statement, or in an official report.
2. Trust; reliance; applied to one's own abilities, or fortune; belief in one's own competency.
His times being rather prosperous than calm, had raised his confidence by success.
3. That in which trust is placed; ground of trust; he or that which supports.
Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence. Jeremiah 48.
Jehovah shall be thy confidence. Proverbs 3.
4. Safety, or assurance of safety; security.
They shall build houses and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence. Ezekiel 28.
5. Boldness; courage.
Preaching the kingdom of God with all confidence.  Acts 28.
6. Excessive boldness; assurance, proceeding forom vanity or a false opinion of one's own abilities, or excellencies.
Their confidence ariseth from too much credit given to their own wits.


Topic: Confident
Definition:
CON'FIDENT, a. 
1. Having full belief; trusting; relying; fully assured.
I am confident that much may be cone towards the improvement of philosophy.
The troops rush on, confident of success.
2. Positive; dogmatical; as a confident talker.
3. Trusting; without suspicion.
Rome, be as just and gracious unto me, as I am confident and kind to thee.
4. Bold to a vice; having an excess of assurance.
The fool rageth and is confident.  Proverbs 14.
CON'FIDENT, n. One entrusted with secrets; a confidential or bosom friend.
[This word has been usually, but improperly, written confidant.  I have followed the regular English orthography, as Coxe and Mitford have done.]


Topic: Confidential
Definition:
CONFIDEN'TIAL, a. 
1. Enjoying the confidence of another; trusty; that may be safely trusted; as a confidential friend.
2. That is to be treated or kept in confidence; private; as a confidential matter.
3. Admitted to a special confidence.


Topic: Confidently
Definition:
CON'FIDENTLY, adv.  With firm trust; with strong assurance; without doubt or wavering of opinion; positively; as, to believe confidently; to assert confidently.


Topic: Configuration
Definition:
CONFIGURA'TION, n. [L.]
1. External form, figure, shape; the figure which bounds a body, and gives it its external appearance, constituting one of the principal differences between bodies.
2. Aspects of the planets; or the face of the horoscope, according to the aspects of the planets toward each other at any time.
3. Resemblance of one figure to another.


Topic: Confine
Definition:
CON'FINE, n. [L., at the end or border, adjoining; a limit; end, border, limit. See Fine.]  Border; edge; exterior part; the part of any territory which is at or near the end or extremity.  It is used generally in the plural, and applied chiefly to the countries, territory, cities, rivers, &c. We say, the confines of France, or of Scotland, and figuratively, the confines of light, of death, or the grave; but never, the confines of a book, table or small piece of land.
CON'FINE, a. Bordering on; lying on the border; adjacent; having a common boundary.
CON'FINE, v.i. To border on; to touch the limit; to be adjacent or contiguous, as one territory, kingdom or state to another; usually followed by on; sometimes by with.  England confines on Scotland.  Connecticut confines on Massachusets, New-York, Rhode Island and the sound.


Topic: Confinement
Definition:
CONFI'NEMENT, n. 
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity; as the confinement of a debtor or criminal to a prison, or of troops to a besieged town.
2. Voluntary restraint; seclusion; as the confinement of a man to his house, or to his studies.
3. Voluntary restraint in action or practice; as confinement to a particular diet.
4. Restraint from going abroad by sickness, particularly by child-birth.


Topic: Confirm
Definition:
CONFIRM, v.t. [L., to make firm. See Firm.]
1. To make firm, or more firm; to add strength to; to strengthen; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
2. To fix more firmly; to settle or establish.
Confirming the souls of the disciples.  Acts 14.
I confirm thee in the priesthood. Maccabees.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
3. To make firm or certain; to give new assurance of truth or certainty; to put past doubt.
The testimony of Christ was confirmed in you. 1 Corinthians 1.
4. To fix; to radicate; as, the patient has a confirmed dropsy.
5. To strengthen; to ratify; as, to confirm an agreement, promise, covenant or title.
6. To make more firm; to strengthen; as, to confirm an opinion, a purpose or resolution.
7. To admit to the full privileges of a Christian, by the imposition of hands.


Topic: Confirmation
Definition:
CONFIRMATION, n.
1. The act of confirming or establishing; a fixing, settling, establishing or making more certain or firm; establishment.
In the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye are all partakers of my grace. Philippians 1.
2. The act of ratifying; as the confirmation of a promise, covenant, or stipulation.
3. The act of giving new strength; as the confirmation of health.
4. The act of giving new evidence; as the confirmation of opinion or report.
5. That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony; as, this fact or this argument is a confirmation of what was before alleged.
6. In law, an assurance of title, by the conveyance of an estate or right in esse, from one man to another, by which a voidable estate is made sure or unavoidable, or a particular estate is increased, or a possession made perfect.
7. In church affairs, the act of ratifying the election of an archbishop or bishop, by the king, or by persons of his appointment.
8. The act or ceremony of laying on of hands, in the admission of baptized person to the enjoyment of Christian privileges.  The person to be confirmed brings his godfather and godmother, and takes upon himself the baptismal vows.  This is practiced in the Greek, Roman, and Episcopal churches.


Topic: Confirmatory
Definition:
CONFIRMATORY, a. 
1. That serves to confirm; giving additional strength, force or stability, or additional assurance or evidence.
2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.


Topic: Confirmed
Definition:
CONFIRMED, pp. 
1. Made more firm; strengthened; established.
2. Admitted to the full privileges of the church.


Topic: Confirmer
Definition:
CONFIRMER, n. He or that which confirms, establishes or ratifies; one that produces new evidence; an attester.


Topic: Confirming
Definition:
CONFIRMING, ppr. Making firm or more firm; strengthening; ratifying; giving additional evidence or proof; establishing.


Topic: Confiscate
Definition:
CONFISCATE, v.t. [L., a basket, hamper or bag; hence, revenue or the Emperors treasure.] To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; or to condemn private forfeited property to public use.
The estate of the rebels was seized and confiscated.
CONFISCATE, a. Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.


Topic: Confiscation
Definition:
CONFISCATION, n. The act of condemning as forfeited, and adjudging to the public treasury; as the goods of a criminal who has committed a public offense. Ezra 7. 26.


Topic: Confiture
Definition:
CONFITURE, n. [L. This word is corrupted into comfit, which is now used.] A sweetmeat; confection; comfit.


Topic: Conflagration
Definition:
CONFLAGRATION, n. [L. See Flagrant.]
1. A great fire or the burning of any great mass of combustibles, as a house, but more especially a city or a forest.
2. The burning of the world at the consummation of things, when the elements shall melt with fervent heat.


Topic: Conflation
Definition:
CONFLATION, n. [L., to blow. See Blow.]
1. The act of blowing tow or more instruments together.
2. A melting or casting of metal. [Little used.]


Topic: Conflict
Definition:
CONFLICT, n. [L., to strike, to flog, to lick.]
1. A striking or dashing against each other, as of two moving bodies in opposition; violent collision of substances; as a conflict of elements, or waves; a conflict of particles in ebulltion.
2. A fighting; combat, as between men, and applicable to individuals or to armies; as, the conflict was long and desperate.
3. Contention; strife; contest.
In our last conflict, four of his five wits went halting off.
4. Struggling with difficulties; a striving to oppose, or overcome.
The good man has a perpetual conflict with his evil propensities.
5. A struggling of the mind; distress; anxiety. Colossians 2.
6. The last struggle of life; agony; as the conflict with death.
7. Opposing operations; countervailing action; collision; opposition.
In exercising the right of freemen, the man of religion experiences no conflict between his duty and his inclination.
CONFLICT, v.i.
1. To strike or dash against; to meet and oppose, as bodies driven by violence; as conflicting waves or elements.
2. To drive or strike against, as contending men, or armies; to fight; to contend with violence; as conflicting armies.
3. To strive or struggle to resist and overcome; as men conflicting with difficulties.
4. To be in opposition or contradictory.
The laws of the United States and of the individual States, may, in some cases, conflict with each other.


Topic: Conflicting
Definition:
CONFLICTING, ppr. 
1. Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
2. Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
In the absence of all conflicting evidence.


Topic: Confluence
Definition:
CONFLUENCE, n. [L., to flow. See Flow.]
1. A flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams of water, or other fluid; also, the place of meeting; as the confluence of the Tigris and the Frat, or of the Ohio and Mississippi.
2. The running together of people; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; a crowd; a concourse; the latter word is more generally used.
3. A collection; meeting; assemblage.


Topic: Confluent
Definition:
CONFLUENT, a. [L.]
1. Flowing together; meeting in their course, as two streams; as confluent streams.
2. In medical science, running together, and spreading over a large surface of the body; as the confluent small-pox.
3. In botany, united at the base; growing in tufts, as confluent leaves; running into each other, as confluent lobes.


Topic: Conflux
Definition:
CONFLUX, n. [L. See Confluence.]
1. A flowing together; a meeting of two or more currents of a fluid.
2. A collection; a crowd; a multitude collected; as a general conflux of people.


Topic: Conform
Definition:
CONFORM, a. [L., form.] Made to resemble; assuming the same form; like; resembling. [Little used.]
CONFORM, v.t. [L., to form, or shape, form.]
1. To make like, in external appearance; to reduce to a like shape, or form, with something else; with to; as, to conform any thing to a model.
2. More generally, to reduce to a likeness or correspondence in manners, opinions or moral qualities.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. Romans 8.
Be not conformed to this world. Romans 7.
3. To make agreeable to; to square with a rule or directory. 
Demand of them why they conform not themselves to the order of the church?
CONFORM, v.i.
1. To comply with or yield to; to live or act according to; as, to conform to the fashion or to custom.
2. To comply with; to obey; as, to conform to the laws of the state.


Topic: Conformable
Definition:
CONFORMABLE, a. 
1. Correspondent; having the same or similar external form, or shape; like; resembling; as an edifice conformable to a model or draft.
2. Having the same or similar manners, opinions or moral qualities.
The Gentiles were not made conformable to the Jews, in that which was to cease at the coming of Christ.
3. Agreeable; suitable; consistent; as, nature is conformable to herself.
4. Compliant; ready to follow directions; submissive; obsequious; peaceable; disposed to obey.
I have been to you a true and humble wife, At all time to your will conformable.
It is generally followed by to, but good writers have used with.  In its etymological sense, that may be conformed, capable of being conformed, it seems not to be used.


Topic: Conformably
Definition:
CONFORMABLY, adv. With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
Let us settle, in our own minds, what rules to pursue and act conformably.


Topic: Conformation
Definition:
CONFORMATION, n.
1. The manner in which a body is formed; the particular texture or structure of a body, or disposition of the parts which compose it; form; structure; often with relation to some other body, and with adaptation to some purpose or effect.
Light of different colors is reflected from bodies, according to their different conformation.  Varieties of sound depend on the conformation of the organs.
2. The act of conforming; the act of producing suitableness, or conformity; with to; as the conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion.
3. In medical science, the particular make or construction of the body peculiar to an individual; as a good or bad conformation.


Topic: Conformist
Definition:
CONFORMIST, n. One who conforms or complies; appropriately, one who complies with the worship of the church of England or of the established church, as distinguished from a dissenter, or nonconformist.


Topic: Conformity
Definition:
CONFORMITY, n. 
1. Likeness; correspondence with a model in form or manner; resemblance; agreement; congruity with something else; followed by to or with.
A ship is constructed in conformity to a model, or in conformity with a model.
True happiness consists in conformity of life to the divine law.
2. Consistency; agreement.
Many instances prove the conformity of the essay with the notions of Hippocrates.
3. In theology, correspondence in manners and principles; compliance with customs. 
Live no in conformity with the world.


Topic: Confound
Definition:
CONFOUND, v.t. [L., to pour out. Literally, to pour or throw together.]
1. To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures cannot be distinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals cannot be distinguished.
2. To throw into disorder.
Let us go down, and there confound their language. Genesis 11.
3. To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another.
A fluid body and a wetting liquor, because they agree in many things, are wont to be confounded.
Men may confound ideas with words.
4. To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words.
Men may confound each other by unintelligible terms or wrong application of words.
5. To abash; to throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed.
Be thou confounde and ber thy shame. Ezekiel 16. 
Saul confounded the Jews at Damascus. Acts 9.
6. To perplex with terror; to terrify; to dismay; to astonish; to throw into consternation; to stupify with amazement.
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood a while as mute confounded what to say.
The multitude came together and were confounded. Acts 2.
7. To destroy; to overthrow.
So deep a malice to confound the race of mankind in one root.


Topic: Confounded
Definition:
CONFOUNDED, pp. 
1. Mixed or blended in disorder; perplexed; abashed; dismayed; put to shame and silence; astonished.
2. Enormous; as a confounded tory. [Vulgar.]


Topic: Confoundedly
Definition:
CONFOUNDEDLY, adv. Enormously; greatly; shamefully; as, he was confoundedly avaricious. [A low word.]


Topic: Confounder
Definition:
CONFOUNDER, n. One who confounds; one who disturbs the mind, perplexes, refutes, frustrates and puts to shame or silence; one who terrifies.


Topic: Confounding
Definition:
CONFOUNDING, ppr. Mixing and blending; putting into disorder; perplexing; disturbing the mind; abashing, and putting to shame and silence; astonishing.


Topic: Confraternity
Definition:
CONFRATERNITY, n. [L., fraternity, brother.] A brotherhood; a society or body of men, united for some purpose or in some profession; as the confraternity of Jesuits.


Topic: Confront
Definition:
CONFRONT, v.t. [L.]
1. To stand face to face in full view; to face; to stand in front.
He spoke and then confronts the bull.
2. To stand in direct opposition; to oppose.
The East and West churches did both confront the Jews, and concur with them.
3. To set face to face; to bring into the presence of; as a accused person and a witness, in court, for examination and discovery of the truth; followed by with.
The witnesses are confronted with the accused, the accused with one another, or the witnesses with one another.
4. To set together for comparison; to compare one thing with another.
When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands.


Topic: Confrontation
Definition:
CONFRONTATION, n. The act of bringing two persons into the presence of each other for examination and discovery of truth.


Topic: Confuse
Definition:
CONFUSE, v.t. [L. See Confound.]
1. To mix or blend things, so that they cannot be distinguished.
Stunning sounds and voices all confused.
Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise. Isaiah 9.
2. To disorder; as, a sudden alarm confused the troops; a careless bookkeeper has confused the accounts.
3. To perplex; to render indistinct; as, the clamor confused his ideas.
4. To throw the mind into disorder; to cast down or abash; to cause to blush; to agitate by surprise, or shame; to disconcert.
A sarcastic remark confused the gentleman and he could not proceed in his argument.
Confused and sadly she at length replied.


Topic: Confused
Definition:
CONFUSED, pp. 
1. Mixed; blended, so that the things or persons mixed cannot be distinguished.
Some cried one thing, and some another; for the assembly was confused. Acts 19.
2. Perplexed by disorder, or want of system; as a confused account.
3. Abashed; put to the blush or to shame; agitated; disconcerted.


Topic: Confusedly
Definition:
CONFUSEDLY, adv. In a mixed mass; without order or separation; indistinctly; not clearly; tumultuously; with agitation of mind; without regularity or system.


Topic: Confusedness
Definition:
CONFUSEDNESS, n. A state of being confused; want of order, distinction or clearness.
The cause of the confusedness of our notions is want of attention.


Topic: Confusion
Definition:
CONFUSION, n. 
1. In a general sense, a mixture of several things promiscuously; hence, disorder; irregularity; as the confusion of tongues at Babel.
2. Tumult; want of order in society.
The whole city was filled with confusion. Acts 19. 
God is not the author of confusion. 1 Corinthians. 14. 
3. A blending or confounding; indistinct combination; opposed to distinctness or perspicuity; as a confusion of ideas.
4. Abashment; shame.
O Lord, let me never be put to confusion.  Psalm 71.
We lie in shame and our confusion covereth us. Jeremiah 3.
5. Astonishment; agitation; perturbation; distraction of mind.
Confusion dwelt in every face.
6. Overthrow; defeat; ruin.
The makers of idols shall go to confusion together. Isaiah 45.
7. A shameful blending of natures, a shocking crime. Leviticus 18:23, 20:12.


Topic: Confutable
Definition:
CONFUTABLE, a. [See Confute.] That may be confuted, disproved or overthrown; that may be shown to be false, defective or invalid; as, an argument or a course of reasoning is confutable.


Topic: Confutation
Definition:
CONFUTATION, n. The act of confuting, disproving, or proving to be false, or invalid; refutation; overthrow; as of arguments, opinions, reasoning, theory, or error.


Topic: Confute
Definition:
CONFUTE, v.t. [L.]
1. To disprove; to prove to be false, defective or invaled; to overthrow; as, to confute arguments, reasoning, theory, error.
2. To prove to be wrong; to convict of error, by argument or proof; as, to confute an advocate at the bar; to confute a writer.


Topic: Confuted
Definition:
CONFUTED, pp. Disproved; proved to be false, defective or unsound; overthrown by argument, fact or proof.


Topic: Confuting
Definition:
CONFUTING, ppr. Disproving; proving to be false, defective or invalid; overthrowing by argument or proof.


Topic: Conge
Definition:
CONGE, n. [L.]
1. Leave; farewell; parting ceremony.
2. The act of respect performed at the parting of friends.  Hence, the customary act of civility, on other occasions; a bow or a courtesy. 
The captain salutes you with conge profound.
CONGE, v.i. To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.  The preterite congeed is tolerable in English; but congeing will not be admitted, and congeeing is an anomaly.
Conge delire, in ecclesiastical affairs, the kings license or permission to a dean and chapter, to choose a bishop; or to an abbey or priory of his own foundation, to choose their abbot or prior.  The king of Great Britain, as sovereign patron, had formerly the appointment of all ecclesiastical dignities; investing by crosier and ring, and afterwards by letters patent.  But now the king, on demand, sends, his conge delire to the dean and chapter, with a letter missive, containing the name of the person he would have them elect, and if they delay the election twelve days, the nomination devolves on the king, who may appoint by letters patent.
CONGE, n. In architecture, a mold in form of a quarter round, or a cavetto, which serves to separate two members from one another; such as that which joins the shaft of the column to the cincture, called also apophyge.  Also, a ring or ferrule, formerly used on the extremities of columns to keep them from splitting; afterwards imitated in stone-work.


Topic: Congeal
Definition:
CONGEAL, v.t. [L., to freeze, has the elements of cool, but it may be a different word.]
1. To change from a fluid to a solid sate, as by cold, or a loss of heat, as water in freezing, liquid metal or wax in cooling, blood in stagnating or cooling, &c.; to harden into ice, or into a substance of less solidity.  Cold congeals water into ice, or vapor into hoar frost or snow, and blood into a less solid mass, or clot.
2. To bind or fix with cold.  Applied to the circulating blood, it does not signify absolutely to harden, but to cause a sensation of cold, a shivering, or a receding of the blood from the extremities; as, the frightful scene congealed his blood.
CONGEAL, v.i. To grow hard, stiff or thick; to pass from a fluid to a solid state; to concrete into a solid mass.  Melted lead congelas; water congeals; blood congeals.


Topic: Congealed
Definition:
CONGEALED, pp. Converted into ice, or a solid mass, by the loss of heat or other process; concreted.


Topic: Congelation
Definition:
CONGELATION, n. [L.] The process of passing, or the act of converting, from a fluid to a solid state; or the state of being congealed; concretion.  It differ from crystalization in this; in congelation the whole substance of a fluid may become solid; in crystalization, when a salt is formed, a portion of liquid is left.  But the congelation of water is a real crystalization.


Topic: Congener
Definition:
CONGENER, n. [L., kind, race.] A thing of the same kind or nature.
The cherry tree has been often grafted on the laurel, to which it is a congener.
CONGENER, CONGENEROUS, a. Of the same kind or nature; allied in origin or cause; as congenerous bodies; congenerous diseases.


Topic: Congenial
Definition:
CONGENIAL, a. [L. See Generate.]
1. Partaking of the same genus, kind or nature; kindred; cognate; as congenial souls.
2. Belonging to the nature; natural; agreeable to the nature; usually followed by to; as, this severity is not congenial to him.
3. Natural; agreeable to the nature; adapted; as a soil congenial to a plant.


Topic: Congeniality
Definition:
CONGENIALITY, CONGENIALNESS, n. Participation of the same genus, nature or original; cognation; natural affinity; suitableness.


Topic: Congenital
Definition:
CONGENITE, CONGENITAL, a. [L., born, to beget, to be born.] Of the same birth; born with another; connate; begotten together.
Many conclusions of moral and intellectual truths seem to be congenite with us.
Native or congenital varieties of animals.


Topic: Conger
Definition:
CONGER, n. [L., Gr. ] The sea-eel; a large species of eel, sometimes growing to the length of ten feet, and weighing a hundred pounds.  In Cornwall, England, it is an article of commerce, being shipped to Spain and Portugal.


Topic: Congeries
Definition:
CONGERIES, n. [L., to bring together, to amass; to bear.] A collection of several particles or bodies in one mass or aggregate.


Topic: Congestion
Definition:
CONGESTION, n. [L.] A collection of humors in an animal body, hardened into a tumor.  An accumulation of blood in a part.


Topic: Congiary
Definition:
CONGIARY, n. [L.] Properly, a present made by the Roman emperors to the people; originally in corn or wine measured out to them in a congius, a vessel holding a gallon or rather more.  In present usage, a gift or a donative represented on a medal.


Topic: Conglaciation
Definition:
CONGLACIATION, n. The act of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation.


Topic: Conglobate
Definition:
CONGLOBATE, a. [L., to collect or to make round; a ball. See Globe.] Formed or gathered into a ball.  A conglobate gland is a single or lymphatic gland, a small smooth body, covered in a fine skin, admitting only an artery and a lymphatic vessel to pass in, and a vein and a lymphatic vessel to pass out.
CONGLOBATE, v.t. To collect or form into a ball or hard, round substance.


Topic: Conglobe
Definition:
CONGLOBE, v.t. [L., a round body.] To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
CONGLOBE, v.i. To collect, unite or coalesce in a round mass.


Topic: Conglomerate
Definition:
CONGLOMERATE, a. [L., to wind into a ball, a ball, a clew. See Glomerate.]
1. Gathered into a ball or round body. A conglomerate gland is composed of many smaller glands, whose excretory ducts unite in a common one, as the live, kidneys, pancreas, parotids, &c. Each little granulated portion furnishes a small tube, which unites with other similar ducts, to form the common excretory duct of the gland.
2. In botany, conglomerate flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot stalk, on short pedicles, closely compacted together without order; opposed to diffused.
3. Conglomerate rocks. [See Puddingstone.]
CONGLOMERATE, v.t. To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a round mass.
CONGLOMERATE, n. In mineralogy, a sort of pudding-stone, or coarse sandstone, composed of pebbles of quartz, flint, siliceous slate, &c.


Topic: Conglomeration
Definition:
CONGLOMERATION, n. The act of gathering into a ball; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.


Topic: Conglutinant
Definition:
CONGLUTINANT, a. [See Conglutinate.] Gluing; uniting; healing.
CONGLUTINANT, n. A medicine that heals wounds.


Topic: Conglutinate
Definition:
CONGLUTINATE, v.t. [L., glue. See Glue.]
1. To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance.
2. To heal; to unite the separated parts of a wound by tenacious substance.
CONGLUTINATE, v.i. To coalesce; to unite by the intervention of a callus.


Topic: Conglutination
Definition:
CONGLUTINATION, n. The act of gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; a healing by uniting the parts of a wound; union.


Topic: Congratulate
Definition:
CONGRATULATE, v.t. [L., grateful, pleasing. See Grace.] To profess ones pleasure or joy to another on account of an event deemed happy or fortunate, as on the birth of a child, success in an enterprise, victory, escape from danger, &c.; to wish joy to another. We congratulate the nation on the restoration of peace.
Formerly this verb was followed by to.  The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves. But this use of to is entirely obsolete.  The use of with after this verb, I congratulate with my country, is perhaps less objectionable, but is rarely used.  The intransitive sense of the verb may therefore be considered as antiquated, and no longer legitimate.


Topic: Congratulating
Definition:
CONGRATULATING, ppr. Professing ones joy or satisfaction on account of some happy event, prosperity or success.


Topic: Congratulation
Definition:
CONGRATULATION, n. The act of professing ones joy or satisfaction on account of some happy event, prosperity or success.
CONGRATULATION, n. The act of professing ones joy or good wishes at the success or happiness of another, or on account of an event deemed fortunate to both parties or to the community.


Topic: Congratulatory
Definition:
CONGRATULATORY, a. Expressing joy for the good fortune of another, or for an event fortunate for both parties or for the community.


Topic: Congregate
Definition:
CONGREGATE, v.t. [L., a herd. See Gregarious.] To collect separate persons or things into an assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a crowd or united body; as, to congregate men or animals; to congregate waters or sands.
CONGREGATE, v.i. To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Equals with equals often congregate.
CONGREGATE, a. Collected; compact; close. [Little used.]


Topic: Congregation
Definition:
CONGREGATION, n. 
1. The act of bringing together, or assembling.
2. A collection or assemblage of separate things; as a congregation of vapors.
3. More generally, an assembly or persons; and appropriately, an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction.
4. An assembly of rulers. Numbers 35.
5. An assembly of ecclesiastics or cardinals appointed by the pope; as the congregation of the holy office, &c. Also, a company or society of religious cantoned out of an order.
6. An academical assembly for transacting business of the university.


Topic: Congregational
Definition:
CONGREGATIONAL, a. Pertaining to a congregation; appropriately used of such Christians as hold to church government by consent and election, maintaining that each congregation is independent of others, and has the right to choose its own pastor and govern itself; as a congregational church, or mode of worship.


Topic: Congregationalism
Definition:
CONGREGATIONALISM, n. Ecclesiastical government in the hands of each church, as an independent body.


Topic: Congregationalist
Definition:
CONGREGATIONALIST, n. One who belongs to a congregational church or society; one who holds to the independence of each congregation or church of Christians, in the right of electing a pastor, and in governing the church.


Topic: Congress
Definition:
CONGRESS, n. [L., to come together; to go or step; a step. See Grade and Degree.]
1. A meeting of individuals; an assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, &c., particularly a meeting of the representatives of several courts, to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns.
2. The assembly of delegates of the several British Colonies in America, which united to resist the claims of Great Britain in 1774, and which declared the colonies independent.
3. The assembly of the delegates of the several United States, after the declaration of Independence, and until the adoption of the present constitution, and the organization of the government in 1789.  During these periods, the congress consisted of one house only.
4. The assembly of senators and representatives of the several states of North America, according to the present constitution, or political compact, by which they are united in a federal republic; the legislature of the United States, consisting of two houses, a senate and a house of representatives.  Members of the senate are elected for six years, but the members of the house of representatives are chosen for two years only.  Hence the united body of senators and representatives for the two years , during which the representatives hold their seats is called one congress.  Thus we say the first or second session of the sixteenth congress.
5. A meeting of two or more persons in a contest; an encounter; a conflict.
6. The meeting of the sexes in sexual commerce.


Topic: Congressional
Definition:
CONGRESSIONAL, a. Pertaining to a congress, or to the congress of the United States; as congressional debates.
The congressional institution of Amphictyons in Greece.


Topic: Congruence
Definition:
CONGRUENCE, CONGRUENCY, n. [L., to agree, or suit.] Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.


Topic: Congruity
Definition:
CONGRUITY, n. 
1. Suitableness; the relation of agreement between things.
There is no congruity between a mean subject and a lofty style; but an obvious congruity between an elevated station and dignified deportment.
2. Fitness, pertinence.
A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting a particle.
3. Reason; consistency; propriety.
4. In school divinity, the good actions which are supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who perform them.  The merit of congruity is a sort of imperfect qualification for the gift and reception of Gods grace.
5. In geometry, figures or lines, which when laid over one another, exactly correspond, are in congruity.


Topic: Congruous
Definition:
CONGRUOUS, a. [L.]
1. Suitable; consistent; agreeable to. Light airy music and a solemn or mournful occasion are not congruous.  Obedience to God is congruous to the light of reason.
2. Rational; fit.
It is not congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth.


Topic: Conic
Definition:
CONIC, CONICAL, a. [L., Gr., See Cone.]
1. Having the form of a cone; round and decreasing to a point; as a conic figure; a conical vessel
2. Pertaining to a cone; as conic sections.
Conic Section, a curve line formed by the intersection of a cone and plane.  The conic sections are the parabola, hyperbola, and ellipsis.


Topic: Conics
Definition:
CONICS, n. That part of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise form its sections.


Topic: Coniferous
Definition:
CONIFEROUS, a. [L., to bear.] Bearing cones; producing hard, dry, scaly seed-vessels of a conical figure, as the pine, fir, cypress and beech.


Topic: Conite
Definition:
CONITE, n. [Gr., dust.] A mineral of an ash or greenish gray color, which becomes brown by exposure to the air, occurring massive or stalactitic; found in Saxony and in Iceland.


Topic: Conjecturally
Definition:
CONJECTURALLY, adv. Without proof, or evidence; by conjecture; by guess; as, this opinion was given conjecturally.


Topic: Conjecture
Definition:
CONJECTURE, n. [L., See Conjector.]
1. Literally, a casting or throwing together of possible or probable events; or a casting of the mind to something future, or something past but unknown; a guess, formed on a supposed possibility or probability of a fact, or on slight evidence; preponderance of opinion without proof; surmise.  We speak of future or unknown things by conjecture, and of probable or unfounded conjectures.
2. Idea; notion.
CONJECTURE, v.t. To guess; to judge by guess, or by the probability or the possibility of a fact, or by very slight evidence; to form an opinion at random.  What will be the issue of a war, we may conjecture, but cannot know. He conjectured that some misfortune had happened.


Topic: Conjoin
Definition:
CONJOIN, v.t. [L., to join. See Join.]
1. To join together, without any thing intermediate; to unite two or more persons or things in close connection; as, to conjoin friends; to conjoin man and woman in marriage.
2. To associate, or connect. 
Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
CONJOIN, v.i. To unite; to join; to league.


Topic: Conjoint
Definition:
CONJOINT, a. United; connected; associate.
Conjoint degrees, in music, two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale; as ut and re.
Conjoint tetrachords, two tetrachords or fourths, where the same chord is the highest of one and the lowest of the other.


Topic: Conjugal
Definition:
CONJUGAL, a. [L., marriage; to yoke or couple. See Join and Yoke.]
1. Belonging to marriage; matrimonial; connubial; as conjugal relation; conjugal ties.
2. Suitable to the married state; becoming a husband in relation to his consort, or a consort in relation to her husband; as conjugal affection.


Topic: Conjugate
Definition:
CONJUGATE, v.t. [L., to couple; to yoke, to marry. See Join and Yoke.]
1. To join; to unite in marriage. [Not now used.]
2. In grammar, to distribute the parts or inflections of a verb, into the several voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons, so as to show their connections, distinctions, and modes of formation. Literally, to connect all the inflectious of a verb, according to their derivation, or all the variations of one verb.  In English, as the verb undergoes few variations, conjugation consists chiefly in combining the words which unitedly form the several tenses in the several persons.
CONJUGATE, n. A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
CONJUGATE, a. In botany, a conjugate leaf is a pinnate leaf which has only one pair of leaflets; a conjugate raceme has two racemes only, united by a common peduncle.
Conjugate diameter or axis, in geometry, a right line bisecting the transverse diameter; the shortest of the two diameters of an ellipses.


Topic: Conjugation
Definition:
CONJUGATION, n. [L.]
1. A couple or pair; as a conjugation of nerves. [Little used.]
2. The act of uniting or compiling; union; assemblage.
3. In grammar, the distribution of the several inflections or variations of a verb, in their different voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons; a connected scheme of all the derivative forms of a verb.


Topic: Conjunction
Definition:
CONJUNCTION, n. [L. See Conjoin.]
1. Union; connection; association by treaty or otherwise.
2. In astronomy, the meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter with Saturn.
3. In grammar, a connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to unite sentences or the clauses of a sentence and words, joining two or more simple sentences into one compound one, and continuing it at the pleasure of the writer or speaker.
This book cost one dollar and ten cents.
God called the light day and the darkness he called night.
Virtue and vice are not compatible.
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. Proverbs 5.
4. The copulation of the sexes.


Topic: Conjunctive
Definition:
CONJUNCTIVE, a. 
1. Closely united.
2. Uniting; serving to unite.
3. In grammar, the conjunctive mode is that which follows a conjunction, or expresses some condition, or contingency.  It is more generally called subjunctive.


Topic: Conjuncture
Definition:
CONJUNCTURE, n. [See Conjoin.]
1. A joining; a combination or union, as of causes, events or circumstances; as an unhappy conjuncture of affairs.
2. An occasion; a critical time, proceeding from a union of circumstances. Juncture is used in a like sense.
At that conjuncture, peace was very desirable.
3. Union; connection; mode of union; as the conjunctures of letters in words.
4. Connection; union; consistency.
I was willing to grant to presbytery what with reason it can pretend to in a conjuncture with episcopacy.


Topic: Conjuration
Definition:
CONJURATION, n. [See Conjure.] The act of using certain words or ceremonies to obtain the aid of a superior being; the act of summoning in a sacred name; the practice of arts to expel evil spirits, allay storms, or perform supernatural or extraordinary acts.


Topic: Conjure
Definition:
CONJURE, v.t. [L., to swear together, to conspire.]
1. To call on or summon by a sacred name, or in a solemn manner; to implore with solemnity.  It seems originally to have signified, to bind by an oath.
I conjure you! Let him know, whateer was done against him, Cato did it.
2. To bind two or more by an oath; to unite in a common design. Hence intransitively, to conspire. [Not usual.]
CONJURE, v.t. To expel, to drive or to affect, in some manner, by magic arts, as by invoking the Supreme Being, or by the use of certain words, characters or ceremonies to engage supernatural influence; as, to conjure up evil spirits, or to conjure down a tempest; to conjure the stars.
Note. It is not easy to define this word, nor any word of like import; as the practices of conjurors are little known, or various and indefinite.  The use of this word indicates that an oath or solemn invocation originally formed a part of the ceremonies.
CONJURE, v.i. 
1. To practice the arts of a conjurer; to use arts to engage the aid of spirits in performing some extraordinary act.
2. In a vulgar sense, to behave very strangely; to act like a witch; to play tricks.


Topic: Conjurer
Definition:
CONJURER, n. One who practices conjuration; one who pretends to the secret art of performing things supernatural or extraordinary, by the aid of superior powers; an impostor who pretends, by unknown means, to discover stolen goods, &c. Hence ironically, a man of shrewd conjecture; a man of sagacity.


Topic: Connascence
Definition:
CONNASCENCE, n. [L., to be born.]
1. The common birth of two or more at the same time; production of two or more together.
2. A being born or produced with another.
3. The act of growing together, or at the same time.


Topic: Connate
Definition:
CONNATE, a. [L., born.]
1. Born with another; being of the same birth; as connate notions.
2. In botany, united in origin; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as connate leaves or anthers.


Topic: Connatural
Definition:
CONNATURAL, a. [con and natural.]
1. Connected by nature; united in nature; born with another.
These affections are connatural to us, and as we grow up, so do they.
2. Participating of the same nature.
And mix with our connatural dust.


Topic: Connect
Definition:
CONNECT, v.t. [L.]
1. To knit or link together; to tie or fasten together, as by something intervening, or by weaving, winding or twining. Hence, 
2. To join or unite; to conjoin, in almost any manner, either by junction, by any intervening means, or by order and relation.  We connect letters and words in a sentence; we connect ideas in the mind; we connect arguments in a discourse.  The strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic.  A treaty connects two nations.  The interests of agriculture are connected with those of commerce.  Families are connected by marriage or by friendship.
CONNECT, v.i. To join, unite or cohere; to have a close relation.  This argument connects with another. [This use is rare and not well authorized.]


Topic: Connection
Definition:
CONNECTION, n. [L. See Connect.] The act of joining or state of being joined; a state of being knit or fastened together; union by junction, by an intervening substance or medium, by dependence or relation, or by order in a series; a word of very general import.  There is a connection of links in a chain; a connection between all parts of the human body; a connection between virtue and happiness, and between this life and the future; a connection between parent and child, master and servant, husband and wife; between motives and actions, and between actions and their consequences.  In short, the word is applicable to almost every thing that has a dependence on or relation to another thing.


Topic: Connective
Definition:
CONNECTIVE, a. Having the power of connecting.
CONNECTIVE, n. In grammar, a word that connects other words and sentences; a conjunction.  Harris uses the word for conjunctions and prepositions.


Topic: Connexion
Definition:
CONNEXION, n. Connection.  But for the sake of regular analogy, I have inserted connection, as the derivative of the English connect, and would discard connexion.


Topic: Connexive
Definition:
CONNEXIVE, a. Connective; having the power to connect; uniting; conjunctive; as connexive particles. [Little used.]


Topic: Connivance
Definition:
CONNIVANCE, n. [See Connive.] Properly, the act of winking.  Hence figuratively, voluntary blindness to an act; intentional forbearance to see a fault or other act, generally implying consent to it.
Every vice interprets a connivance to be approbation.


Topic: Connive
Definition:
CONNIVE, v.i. [L., to wink.]
1. To wink; to close and open the eyelids rapidly.
2. In a figurative sense, to close the eyes upon a fault or other act; to pretend ignorance or blindness; to forbear to see; to overlook a fault or other act, and suffer it to pass unnoticed, uncensured or unpunished; as, the father connives at the vices of his son.


Topic: Connivent
Definition:
CONNIVENT, a. 
1. Shutting the eyes; forbearing to see.
2. In anatomy, the connivent valves are those wrinkles, cellules and vascules, which are found on the inside of the two intestines, ilium and jejunum.
3. In botany, closely united; converging together.


Topic: Connoisseur
Definition:
CONNOISSEUR, n. [L., to know.] A person well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge or master of any art, particularly of painting and sculpture.


Topic: Connotation
Definition:
CONNOTATION, n. The act of making known or designating with something; implication of something beside itself inference. [Little used.]


Topic: Connote
Definition:
CONNOTE, v.t. [L., to mark. See Note.] To make known together; to imply; to denote or designate; to include. [Little used.]


Topic: Connubial
Definition:
CONNUBIAL, a. [L., to marry.] Pertaining to marriage; nuptial; belonging to the state of husband and wife; as, connubial rites; connubial love.


Topic: Connusant
Definition:
CONNUSANT, a. Knowing; informed; apprised.
A neutral vessel, breaking a blockade, is liable to confiscation, if connusant of the blockade.


Topic: Conoid
Definition:
CONOID, n. [Gr., a cone, form.]
1. In geometry, a solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis.  If the conic section is a parabola, the resulting solid is a parabolic conoid, or paraboloid; if a hyperbola, the solid is a hyperbolic conoid, or hyperboloid; of an ellipse, an elliptic conoid, a spheroid, or an ellipsoid.
2. In anatomy, a gland in the third ventricle of the brain, resembling a cone or pine-apple, and called the pineal gland.


Topic: Conquer
Definition:
CONQUER, v.t.
1. To subdue; to reduce, by physical force, till resistance is no longer made; to overcome; to vanquish.  Alexander conquered Asia.  The Romans conquered Carthage.
2. To gain by force; to win; to take possession by violent means; to gain dominion or sovereignty over, as the subduing of the power of an enemy generally implies possession of the person or thing subdued by the conqueror. Thus, a king or an army conquers a country, or a city, which is afterward restored.
3. To subdue opposition or resistance of the will by moral force; to overcome by argument, persuasion or other influence.
Anna conquers but to save, and governs but to bless.
He went forth conquering, and to conquer.  Revelations. 6.
4. To overcome, as difficulties; to surmount, as obstacles; to subdue whatever opposes; as, to conquer the passions; to conquer reluctance.
5. To gain or obtain by effort; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer peace; a French application of the word.
CONQUER, v.i. To overcome; to gain the victory.
The champions resolved to conquer or to die.


Topic: Conqueror
Definition:
CONQUEROR, n. One who conquers; one who gains a victory; one who subdues and brings into subjection or possession, by force or by influence.  The man who defeats his antagonist in combat is a conqueror, as is the general or admiral who defeats his enemy.


Topic: Conquest
Definition:
CONQUEST, n. [The primary sense is to seek, to press or drive towards.]
1. The act of conquering; the act of overcoming or vanquishing opposition by force, physical or moral.  Applied to persons, territory and the like, it usually implies or includes a taking possession of; as the conquest of Canada by the British troops. So we speak of the heart, the passions, or the will.
2. Victory; success in arms; the overcoming of opposition.
In joys of conquest he resigns his breath.
3. That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral; as, Jamaica was a valuable conquest for England.
4. In a feudal sense, acquest; acquisition; the acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance, or the acquisition of property by a number in community or by one for all the others.
5. In the law of nations, the acquisition of sovereignty by force of arms.
The right of conquest is derived from the laws of war.
6. The act of gaining or regaining by effort; as the conquest of liberty or peace; a French phrase.


Topic: Consanguineous
Definition:
CONSANGUINEOUS, a. [L., infra.] Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.


Topic: Consanguinity
Definition:
CONSANGUINITY, n. [L., blood.] The relation of persons by blood; the relation or connection of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage.  It is lineal or collateral.


Topic: Conscience
Definition:
CONSCIENCE, n. [L., to know, to be privy to.]
1. Internal or self-knowledge, or judgment of right and wrong; or the faculty, power or principle within us, which decides on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of our own actions and affections, and instantly approves or condemns them.  Conscience is called by some writers the moral sense, and considered as an original faculty of our nature.  Others question the propriety of considering conscience as a distinct faculty or principle.  The consider it rather as the general principle of moral approbation or disapprobation, applied to ones own conduct and affections; alledging that our notions of right and wrong are not to be deduced from a single principle or faculty, but from various powers of the understanding and will.
Being convicted by their own conscience, they went out one by one. John 8. 
The conscience manifests itself in the feeling of obligation we experience, which precedes, attends and follows our actions.
Conscience is first occupied in ascertaining our duty, before we proceed to action; then in judging of our actions when performed.
2. The estimate or determination of conscience; justice; honesty.
What you require cannot, in conscience, be deferred.
3. Real sentiment; private thought; truth; as, do you in conscience believe the story?
4. Consciousness; knowledge of our own actions or thought.
The sweetest cordial we receive at last, is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
[This primary sense of the word is nearly, perhaps wholly obsolete.]
5. Knowledge of the actions of others.
6. In ludicrous language, reason or reasonableness.
Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require.
To make conscience or a matter of conscience, is to act according to the dictates of conscience, or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.
Court of conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts in London and other trading cities and districts.


Topic: Conscientious
Definition:
CONSCIENTIOUS, a. 
1. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; as a conscientious judge.
2. Regulated by conscience; according to the dictates of conscience; as a conscientious probity.


Topic: Conscientiously
Definition:
CONSCIENTIOUSLY, adv. According to the direction of conscience; with a strict regard to right and wrong. A man may err conscientiously.


Topic: Conscientiousness
Definition:
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, n. A scrupulous regard to the decisions of conscience; a sense of justice, and strict conformity to its dictates.
All his conduct seemed marked with an exact and unvarying conscientiousness.


Topic: Conscionable
Definition:
CONSCIONABLE, a. According to conscience; reasonable; just.
Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.


Topic: Conscious
Definition:
CONSCIOUS, a. [L.]
1. Possessing the faculty or power of knowing ones own thoughts or mental operations. Thus, man is a conscious being.
2. Knowing from memory, or without extraneous information; as, I am not conscious of the fact.
The damsel than to Tancred sent, who, conscious of the occasion, feared the event.
3. Knowing by conscience, or internal perception or persuasion; as, I am not conscious of having given any offense.  Sometimes followed by to; as, I am not conscious to myself.
Aeneas only, conscious to the sign, presaged the event.  So we say, conscious of innocence, or of ignorance, or of a crime.


Topic: Consciously
Definition:
CONSCIOUSLY, adv. With knowledge of ones own mental operations or actions.
If these perceptions, with their consciousness, always remained in the mind, the same thinking thing would be always consciously present.


Topic: Consciousness
Definition:
CONSCIOUSNESS, n. 
1. The knowledge of sensations and mental operations, or of what passes in ones own mind; the act of the mind which makes known an internal object.
Consciousness of our sensation, and consciousness of our existence, seem to be simultaneous.
Consciousness must be an essential attribute of spirit.
2. Internal sense or knowledge of guilt or innocence.
A man may betray his consciousness of guilt by his countenance.
3. Certain knowledge from observation or experience.


Topic: Conscript
Definition:
CONSCRIPT, a. [L., to enroll; to write.] Written; enrolled; as conscript fathers, the senators of Rome, so called because their names were written in the register of the senate.
CONSCRIPT, n. [L.] An enrolled soldier; a word used in France.


Topic: Consecrate
Definition:
CONSECRATE, v.t. [L., to consecrate, sacred. See Sacred.]
1. To make or declare to be sacred, by certain ceremonies or rites; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service and worship of God; as, to consecrate a church.
Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. Exodus 29.
All the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to the Lord. Joshua 6.
2. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
3. To set apart and bless the elements in the eucharist.
4. To render venerable; to make respected; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.
CONSECRATE, a. Sacred; consecrated; devoted; dedicated.
They were assembled in that consecrate place.
[This word is now seldom used, unless in poetry.]


Topic: Consecrated
Definition:
CONSECRATED, pp. Made sacred by ceremonies or solemn rites; separated from a common to a sacred use; devoted or dedicated to the service and worship of God; made venerable.


Topic: Consecrating
Definition:
CONSECRATING, ppr. Making sacred; appropriating to a sacred use; dedicating to the service of God; devoting; rendering venerable.


Topic: Consecration
Definition:
CONSECRATION, n. 
1. The act or ceremony of separating form a common to a sacred use, or of devoting and dedicating a person or thing to the service and worship of God, by certain rites or solemnities.  Consecration does not make a person or thing really holy, but declares it to be sacred, that is, devoted to God or to divine service; as the consecration of the priests among the Israelites; the consecration of the vessels used in the temple; the consecration of a bishop.
2. Canonization; the act of translating into heaven, and enrolling or numbering among the saints or gods; the ceremony of the apotheosis of an emperor.
3. The benediction of the elements in the eucharist; the act of setting apart and blessing the elements in the communion.


Topic: Consecrator
Definition:
CONSECRATOR, n. One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.


Topic: Consectary
Definition:
CONSECTARY, a. [L., to follow. See Seek.] Following; consequent; consequential; deducible.
CONSECTARY, n. That which follows; consequence; deduction from premises; corollary.


Topic: Consecution
Definition:
CONSECUTION, n. [L., to follow. See Seek.]
1. A following or sequel; train of consequences from premises; series of deductions.
2. Succession; series of things that follow each other; as a consecution of colors.
3. In astronomy, consecution month is the space between one conjunction of the moon with the sun and another.


Topic: Consecutive
Definition:
CONSECUTIVE, a. [See Consecution.]
1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; as, fifty consecutive years.
2. Following; consequential; succeeding; as, the actions of men consecutive to volition.
3. Consecutive chords, in music, imply a succession or repetition of the same consonance in similar motion.


Topic: Consenescence
Definition:
CONSENESCENCE, CONSENESCENCY, n. [L., to grow old.] A growing old; decay from age; as the consenescence of the world.


Topic: Consent
Definition:
CONSENT, n. [L., to be of one mind, to agree; to think, feel or perceive. See Sense and Assent.]
1. Agreement of the mind to what is proposed or state by another; accord; hence, a yielding of the mind or will to that which is proposed; as, a parent gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter.  We generally use this word in cases where power, rights, and claims are concerned.  We give consent, when we yield that which we have a right to withhold; but we do not give consent to a mere opinion, or abstract proposition.  In this case, we give our assent.  But assent is also used in conceding what we may withhold. We give our assent to the marriage of a daughter.  Consequently, assent has a more extensive application than consent.  But the distinction is not always observed.  Consent often amounts to permission.
Defraud ye not one another, except with consent for a time. 1 Corinthians 7.
2. Accord of minds; agreement; unity of opinion.
All with one consent began to make excuse.  Luke 14.
The company of priests murder by consent. Hosea. 6.
3. Agreement; coherence; correspondence in parts, qualities, or operation.
Such is the worlds great harmony that springs from union, order, full consent of things.
4. In the animal economy, an agreement, or sympathy, by which one affected part of the system affects some distant part.  This consent is supposed to exist in, or be produced by the nerves; and the affections to be communicated from one part to another by means of their ramifications and distribution through the body.  Thus, the stone in the bladder, by vellicating the fibers, will produce spasms and colic in the bowels; a shameful thing seen or heard will produce blushing in the cheeks. But many facts indicate that other causes than nervous communication produce sympathy.
CONSENT, v.i. [L. See the Noun.]
1. Literally, to think with another.  Hence, to agree or accord.  More generally, to agree in mind and will; to yield to what one has the power, the right, or the disposition to withhold, or refuse to grant.
If sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Proverbs 1.
And Saul was consenting to Stephens death. Acts 8.
Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us. Genesis 34.
2. To agree.
When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him. Psalm 1.
3. To assent.
I consent to the law that it is good. Romans 7. 1 Timothy 6.


Topic: Consentaneous
Definition:
CONSENTANEOUS, a. [L. See Consent.] Agreeable; accordant; consistent with; suitable.
The practice of virtue is not consentaneous to the unrenewed heart.


Topic: Consentient
Definition:
CONSENTIENT, a. [L.] Agreeing in mind; accordant in opinion.
The authority due to the consentient judgment of the church.


Topic: Consequence
Definition:
CONSEQUENCE, n. [L., to follow. See Seek.]
1. That which follows from any act, cause, principle, or series of actions. Hence, an event or effect produced by some preceding act or cause.
Shun the bitter consequence; for know, the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.
The consequences of intemperance are disgrace, poverty, disease and premature death.
2. In logic, a proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; the conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference; deduction.
Every rational being is accountable to his maker; man is a rational being; the consequence then must be, that man is accountable to his maker.
From this train of argument, the consequence is obvious.
3. Connection of cause and effect; consecution.
I felt that I must after thee, with this my son; such fatal consequence unites us three.
4. Influence; tendency, as to effects.  The sense of consequence, in this use, is modified by the words connected with it; as, it is of little consequence, that is, of little importance, small effects will follow; it is of no consequence, of no moment, no effect of importance will follow; it is of great consequence, of great importance, great effects will follow.
5. Importance; extensive influence; distinction; as a man of great consequence in society.
In consequence, by means of; as the effect of.


Topic: Consequent
Definition:
CONSEQUENT, a. [L.]
1. Following, as the natural effect; with to or on.
The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal.
His poverty was consequent on his vices.
2. Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as a proposition consequent to other propositions.
CONSEQUENT, n. 
1. Effect; that which follows a cause.
They were ill governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.
2. That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion or inference.


Topic: Consequential
Definition:
CONSEQUENTIAL, a. 
1. Following as the effect; produced by the connection of effects with causes; as a consequential evil.
2. Having the consequence justly connected with the premises; conclusive.
These arguments are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.
3. Important.
4. With assumed importance; with conceit.


Topic: Consequently
Definition:
CONSEQUENTLY, adv. By consequence; by necessary connection of effects with their causes; in consequence of something.


Topic: Consequentness
Definition:
CONSEQUENTNESS, n. Regular connection of propositions, following each other; consecution of discourse. [Little used.]


Topic: Conservancy
Definition:
CONSERVANCY, n. [L. See Conserve.] A court of conservancy is held by the Lord Mayor of London, for the preservation of the fishery on the Thames.


Topic: Conservation
Definition:
CONSERVATION, n. [L. See Conserve.] The act of preserving, guarding or protecting; preservation from loss, decay, injury, or violation; the keeping of a thing in a safe or entire state; as the conservation of bodies from perishing; the conservation of the peace of society; the conservation of privileges.


Topic: Conservative
Definition:
CONSERVATIVE, a. Preservative; having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste or injury.


Topic: Conservator
Definition:
CONSERVATOR, n. 
1. A preserver; one who preserves from injury or violation.  Appropriately, an officer who has the charge of preserving the public peace, as judges and sheriffs; also, an officer who has the charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation or community, as in catholic universities.  It is a word of extensive application.
2. In Connecticut, a person appointed to superintend idiots, lunatics, &c., manage their property, and preserve it from waste.


Topic: Conservatory
Definition:
CONSERVATORY, a. Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay or injury.
CONSERVATORY, n. 
1. A place for preserving any thing in a state desired, as from loss, decay, waste or injury. Thus a fish-pond for keeping fish, a granary for corn, an ice-house for ice and other things, a receptacle for water, &c., are called conservatories.
2. A large green-house for exotics, in which the plants are planted in beds and borders, and not in tubs or pots, as in the common green-house.


Topic: Conserve
Definition:
CONSERVE, v.t. [L., to hold, keep or guard.] To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve from loss, decay, waste, or injury; to defend from violation; as, to conserve bodies from perishing; to conserve the peace of society; to conserve fruits, roots and herbs, with sugar, &c.
CONSERVE, n.
1. A sweetmeat made of the inspissated juice of fruit, boiled with sugar.
2. In pharmacy, a form of medicine contrived to preserve the flowers, herbs, roots or fruits of simples, as nearly as possible, in their natural fresh state.  Fresh vegetables and sugar of the consistence of honey.
3. A conservatory. [Not usual.]


Topic: Conserved
Definition:
CONSERVED, pp. Preserved in a safe and sound state; guarded; kept; maintained; protected; prepared with sugar.


Topic: Conserver
Definition:
CONSERVER, n. One who conserves; one who keeps from loss or injury; one who lays up for preservation; a preparer of conserves.


Topic: Consider
Definition:
CONSIDER, v.t. [L., to consider, to view attentively, to sit by; to sit. See Sit. The literal sense is, to sit by or close, or to set the mind or the eye to; hence, to view or examine with attention.]
1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
Know, therefore, this day, and consider it in thy heart. Deuteronomy 4.
Hast thou considered my servant Job? Job 1.
Consider the lilies of the field how they grow. Matthew 6.
2. To view attentively; to observe and examine.
The priest shall consider the leprosy. Leviticus 13.
3. To attend to; to relieve.
Blessed is he that considereth the poor. Psalm 41.
4. To have regard to; to respect.
Let us consider one another, to provoke to love, and to good words. Hebrews 10.
5. To take into view in examination, or into account in estimates.
In adjusting accounts, services, time, and expense ought to be considered.
6. In the imperative, consider is equivalent to, think with care, attend, examine the subject with a view to truth or the consequences of a measure. So we use see, observe, think, attend.
7. To requite; to reward; particularly for gratuitous services.
CONSIDER, v.i.
1. To think seriously, maturely or carefully; to reflect.
None considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge or understanding. Isaiah 44.
In the day of adversity consider. Ecclesiastes 7.
2. To deliberate; to turn in the mind; as in the case of a single person; to deliberate or consult, as numbers; sometimes followed by of; as, I will consider your case, or of your case.
The apostles and elders come together to consider of this matter. Acts 15.
3. To doubt; to hesitate.


Topic: Considerable
Definition:
CONSIDERABLE, a. [See Consider.]
1. That may be considered; that is to be observed, remarked or attended to.
It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them, expressing that the lamps were burning.
[This primary use of the word is obsolescent or very rarely used.]
2. Worthy of consideration; worthy of regard or attention.
Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration.
As that which is worthy of regard is in some measure important, hence
3. Respectable; deserving of notice; of some distinction; applied to persons.
Men considerable in all worthy professions, eminent in many ways of life.
4. Important; valuable; or moderately large, according to the subject.  Considerable aid was expected from the allies.  A man has a considerable estate in Norfolk.  A considerable sum of money was collected.  Sometimes followed by to.  He thought his aid considerable to him.


Topic: Considerableness
Definition:
CONSIDERABLENESS, n. Some degree of importance, moment or dignity; a degree of value or importance that deserves notice.
The considerableness of things is to be estimated by their usefulness, or by their effects on society.


Topic: Considerably
Definition:
CONSIDERABLY, adv. In a degree deserving notice; in a degree not trifling, or unimportant.
And Europe still considerably gains both by their good examples and their pains.


Topic: Considerate
Definition:
CONSIDERATE, a. [L. See Consider.]
1. Given to consideration, or to sober reflection; thoughtful; hence, serious; circumspect; careful; discreet; prudent; not hasty or rash; not negligent.
Aeneas is patient, considerate, and careful of his people.
2. Having respect to; regardful; as, considerate of praise. [Little used.]
3. Moderate; not rigorous.


Topic: Consideration
Definition:
CONSIDERATION, n. [L. See Consider.]
1. The act of considering; mental view; regard; notice.
Let us take into consideration the consequences of a hasty decision.
2. Mature thought; serious deliberation.
Let us think with consideration.
3. Contemplation; meditation.
The love you bear to Mopsa hath brought you to the consideration of her virtues.
4. Some degree of importance; claim to notice, or regard; a moderate degree of respectability.
Lucan is an author of consideration among the Latin poets.
5. That which is considered; motive of action; influence; ground of conduct.
He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum.
6. Reason; that which induces to a determination.
He was moved by the considerations set before him.
7. In law, the reason which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price or motive of a stipulation.  In all contracts, each party gives something in exchange for what he receives.
A contract is an agreement, upon sufficient consideration. This consideration is express or implied; express, when the thing to be given or done is specified; implied, when no specific consideration is agreed upon, but justice requires it and the law implies it; as when a man labors for another, without stipulating for wages, the law infers that he shall receive a reasonable consideration.  A good consideration is that of blood, or natural love; a valuable consideration, is such as money, marriage, &c. Hence a consideration is an equivalent or recompense; that which is given as of equal estimated value with that which is received.


Topic: Considering
Definition:
CONSIDERING, ppr. Fixing the mind on; meditating on; pondering; viewing with care and attention; deliberating on.
Note. We have a peculiar use of this word, which may be a corruption for considered, or which may be a deviation from analogy by an insensible change in the structure of the phrase. It is not possible for us to act otherwise, considering the weakness of our nature. As a participle, this word must here refer to us, or the sentence cannot be resolved by any rule of English syntax.  It should be correct to say, It is not possible for us to act otherwise, the weakness of our nature being considered; or We, considering the weakness of our nature, cannot act otherwise.  But the latter phrase is better grammar, than it is sense.  We use other participles in like manner; as, Allowing for  tare, the weight could not be more than a hundred pounds. These and similar phrases are anomalous.  But considering is no more a kind of conjunction, in such phrases, than it is a noun.
CONSIDERING, n. The act of deliberating, or carefully attending to; hesitation; as, many mazed considerings.


Topic: Consign
Definition:
CONSIGN, v.t. [L., to seal or sign; to seal or stamp; a sign, seal or mark; to deposit, deliver, consign. See Sign. The sense is to set to, to thrust or sent.]
1. To give, send or set over; to transfer or deliver into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession.
At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state.
At death the body is consigned to the grave.
2. To deliver or transfer, as a charge or trust; to commit; as, to consign a youth to the care of a preceptor; to consign goods to a factor.
3. To set over or commit, for permanent preservation; as, to consign a history to writing.
4. To appropriate.
CONSIGN, v.i. To submit to the same terms with another; also, to sign; to agree or consent.


Topic: Consignation
Definition:
CONSIGNATION, n. The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place or state.
Despair is certain consignation to eternal ruin. [Little used. See Consignment.]


Topic: Consignee
Definition:
CONSIGNEE, n. The person to whom goods or other things are delivered in trust, for sale or superintendance; a factor.


Topic: Consigner
Definition:
CONSIGNER, CONSIGNOR, n. The person who consigns; one who sends, delivers, or commits goods to another for sale, or a ship for superintendence, bills of lading, papers, &c.


Topic: Consignment
Definition:
CONSIGNMENT, n. 
1. The act of consigning; consignation; the act of sending or committing, as a charge for safe-keeping or management; the act of depositing with, as goods for sale.
2. The thing consigned; the goods sent or delivered to a factor for sale; as, A received a large consignment of goods from B.
3. The writing by which any thing is consigned.


Topic: Consist
Definition:
CONSIST, v.i. [L., to stand.]
1. To stand together; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection. Hence, to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
He was before all things, and by him all things consist. Colossians 1.
2. To stand or be; to lie; to be contained; followed by in.
The beauty of epistolary writing consists in case and freedom.
3. To be composed; followed by of.
A landscape should consist of a variety of scenery.
To consist together, to coexist; to have being concurrently.
Necessity and election cannot consist together in the same act.
To consist with, to agree; to be in accordance with; to be compatible.
Health consists with temperance alone.


Topic: Consistency
Definition:
CONSISTENCE, CONSISTENCY, n. 
1. A standing together; a being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; that state of a body, in which its component parts remain fixed.
The consistency of bodies is divers; dense, rare, tangible, pneumatical, volatile, &c.
2. A degree of density or spissitude, but indefinite.
Let the juices or liquor be boiled into the consistency of syrup.
3. Substance; make; firmness of constitution; as, friendship of a lasting consistency; resolutions of durable consistence.
4. A standing together, as the parts of a system, or of conduct, &c.; agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; congruity; uniformity; as the consistency of laws, regulations or judicial decisions; consistency of opinion; consistency of behavior or of character.
There is harmony and consistency in all Gods works.
5. A standing; a state of rest, in which things capable of growth or decrease, remain for a time at a stand.


Topic: Consistent
Definition:
CONSISTENT, a. [L. See Consist.]
1. Fixed; firm; not fluid; as the consistent parts of a body, distinguished from the fluid.
2. Standing together or in agreement; compatible; congruous; uniform; not contradictory or opposed; as, two opinions or schemes are consistent; let a man be consistent with himself; the law is consistent with justice and policy.
So two consistent motions act the soul


Topic: Consistently
Definition:
CONSISTENTLY, adv. In a consistent manner; in agreement; agreeably; as, to command confidence, a man must act consistently.


Topic: Consistorial
Definition:
CONSISTORIAL, CONSISTORY, a. [See Consistory.] Pertaining or relating to a consistory, or ecclesiastical court of an archbishop or bishop.
Every archbishop and bishop of a diocese hath a consistory court.


Topic: Consistory
Definition:
CONSISTORY, n. [L. See Consist.] Primarily, a place of meeting; a council-house, or place of justice. Hence,
1. A place of justice in the spiritual court, or the court itself; the court of every diocesan bishop, held in their cathedral churches, for the trial of ecclesiastical causes, arising within the diocese.  The bishops chancellor or his commissary is the judge.
2. An assembly of prelates; the college of cardinals at Rome.
Pius was then hearing causes in consistory.
3. A solemn assembly or council.
4. A place of residence. [Not used.]
5. In the Reformed churches, an assembly or council of ministers and elders.


Topic: Consociate
Definition:
CONSOCIATE, n. [L. See the next word.] An associate; a partner or confederate; an accomplice.
CONSOCIATE, v.t. [L., to unite; a companion. See Social.]
1. To unite; to join; to associate.
2. To cement, or hold in close union.
3. To unite in an assembly or convention, as pastors and messengers or delegates of churches.
CONSOCIATE, v.i.
1. To unite; to coalesce.
2. To unite, or meet in a body; to form a consociation of pastors and messengers.


Topic: Consociation
Definition:
CONSOCIATION, n.
1. Intimate union of persons; fellowship; alliance; companionship; union of things. [This word is less used than association.]
2. Fellowship or union of churches by their pastors and delegates; a meeting of the pastors and delegates of a number of congregational churches, for aiding and supporting each other, and forming an advisory council in ecclesiastical affairs.


Topic: Consol
Definition:
CONSOL, n. [from consolidate.] Consols, in England, are the funds or stocks formed by the consolidation of different annuities.


Topic: Consolation
Definition:
CONSOLATION, n. [L. See Console.]
1. Comfort; alleviation of misery, or distress of mind; refreshment of mind or spirits; a comparative degree of happiness in distress or misfortune, springing from any circumstance that abates the evil, or supports and strengthens the mind, as hope, joy, courage and the like.
Against such cruelties, with inward consolations recompensd.
We have great joy and consolation in thy love. Philemon 7.
2. That which comforts, or refreshes the spirits; the cause of comfort; as the consolation of Israel. Luke 2.


Topic: Consolatory
Definition:
CONSOLATORY, a. [L.] Tending to give comfort; refreshing to the mind; assuaging grief.
CONSOLATORY, n. A speech or writing containing topics of comfort.


Topic: Console
Definition:
CONSOLE, v.t. [L. The primary sense is either to set or allay, to give rest or quiet, or the sense is to strengthen, in which case it coincides with the root of solid.  The latter is most probable.] To comfort; to cheer the mind in distress or depression; to alleviate grief, and give refreshment to the mind or spirits; to give contentment or moderate happiness by relieving from distress.
The promises of the gospel may well console the Christian in all the afflictions of life.
It is a consoling reflection that the evils of life are temporary.
I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete.


Topic: Consolidant
Definition:
CONSOLIDANT, a. [See Consolidate.] Having the quality of uniting wounds or forming new flesh.
CONSOLIDANT, n. A medicine that heals or unites the parts of wounded flesh.


Topic: Consolidate
Definition:
CONSOLIDATE, v.t. [L., solid. See Solid.]
1. To make solid to unite or press together loose or separate parts, and form a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
He fixed and consolidated the earth above the waters.
2. To unite the parts of a broken bone or the lips of a wound, by means of applications.
3. To unite two parliamentary bills in one.
4. In law, to combine two benefices in one.
CONSOLIDATE, v.i. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid.
In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate.
Moist clay consolidates by drying.
CONSOLIDATE, a. Formed into a solid mass.


Topic: Consolidation
Definition:
CONSOLIDATION, n.
1. The act of making or process of becoming solid; the act of forming into a firm compact mass, body or system.
2. The annexing of one bill to another in parliament or legislation.
3. The combining of two benefices in one.
4. The uniting of broken bones or wounded flesh.


Topic: Consonance
Definition:
CONSONANCE, n. [L., to sound together; to sound. See Sound and Tone.]
1. Accord or agreement of sounds.  In music, consonance is an accord of sounds which produces an agreeable sensation in the ear, as the third, fifth and eighth.  It denotes also the according intervals.  When the interval of a consonance is invariable, it is called perfect; but when it may be either major or minor, it is termed imperfect.
2. Agreement; accord; congruity; consistency; agreeableness; suitableness; as the consonance of opinions among judges; the consonance of a ritual to the scriptures.


Topic: Consonant
Definition:
CONSONANT, a. 
1. Agreeing; according; congruous; consistent; followed generally by to; sometimes by with; as, this rule is consonant to scripture and reason.
2. In music, composed of consonances; as consonant intervals.
CONSONANT, n. A letter, so named because it is considered as being sounded only in connection with a vowel.  But some consonants have no sound, even when united with a vowel, and others have a very imperfect sound.  The consonants are better called articulations, as they are the names given to the several closings or junctions of the organs of speech, which precede and follow the openings of the organs, with which the vowels are uttered.  These closings are perfect, and wholly intercept the voice, as in the syllables ek, ep, et; or imperfect, and admitting some slight sound, as in em, en.  Hence some articulations are called mutes, and others, semi-vowels.  The consonants begin or end syllables, and their use is to determine the manner of beginning or ending the vocal sounds.  These closings or configurations of the organs being various, serve to diversify the syllables, as in uttering ba, da, pa, or ab, ad, ap; and although b and p may be considered as representing no sounds at all, yet they so modify the utterance of ab, ap, or ba, pa, that the slight difference between these articulations may be perceived as far as the human voice can be distinctly heard.


Topic: Consort
Definition:
CONSORT, n. [L., sort, state, kind.]
1. A companion; a partner; an intimate associate; particularly, a partner of the bed; a wife or husband.
He single chose to live, and shunnd to wed, well pleased to want a consort of his bed.
2. An assembly or association of persons, convened for consultation.
3. Union; conjunction; concurrence.
4. A number of instruments played together; a symphony; a concert. In this sense, concert is now used.
5. In navigation, any vessel keeping company with another. 
Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regent, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the widow of a king.
CONSORT, v.i. To associate; to unite in company; to keep company; followed by with.
Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee.


Topic: Conspicuous
Definition:
CONSPICUOUS, a. [L., to look or see. See Species.]
1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; manifest; as, to stand in a conspicuous place.
Or come I less conspicuous.
2. Obvious to the mental eye; clearly or extensively known, perceived or understood. Hence, eminent; famous; distinguished; as a man of conspicuous talents; a lady of conspicuous virtues.


Topic: Conspicuously
Definition:
CONSPICUOUSLY, adv. In a conspicuous manner; obviously; in a manner to be clearly seen; eminently; remarkably.


Topic: Conspicuousness
Definition:
CONSPICUOUSNESS, n. 
1. Openness or exposure to the view; a state of being visible at a distance; as the conspicuousness of a tower.
2. Eminence; fame; celebrity; renown; a state of being extensively known and distinguished; as the conspicuousness of an author.


Topic: Conspiracy
Definition:
CONSPIRACY, n. [L. See Conspire.]
1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement between two or more persons, to commit some crime in concert; particularly, a combination to commit treason, or excite sedition or insurrection against the government of a state; a plot; as a conspiracy against the life of a king; a conspiracy against the government.
More than forty had made this conspiracy.  Acts 23.
2. In law, an agreement between two or more persons, falsely and maliciously to indict, or procure to be indicted, an innocent person of felony.
3. A concurrence; a general tendency of two or more causes to one event.


Topic: Conspirator
Definition:
CONSPIRATOR, n. 
1. One who conspires; one who engages in a plot to commit a crime, particularly treason.
2. In law, one who agrees with another falsely and maliciously to indict an innocent person of felony.  By the British statute, a conspirator is defined to be one who binds himself by oath, covenant, or other alliance, to assist another falsely and maliciously to indict a person, or falsely to maintain pleas.


Topic: Conspire
Definition:
CONSPIRE, v.i. [L., to plot; to breathe. But the primary sense is to throw, to wind; hence spira, a fold, circle, wreath or band; and the sense of the verb is, to breathe together, or more probably, to wind or band together.]
1. To agree, by oath, covenant or otherwise, to commit a crime; to plot; to hatch treason.
The servants of Ammon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. 2 Kings 21.
They conspired against Joseph to slay him. Genesis 37. 
2. In law, to agree falsely and maliciously to indict an innocent person of felony.
3. To agree; to concur to one end.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, conspire to censure and expose our age.
All things conspire to make us prosperous.


Topic: Conspiring
Definition:
CONSPIRING, ppr.
1. Agreeing to commit a crime; plotting; uniting or concurring to one end.
2. In mechanics, conspiring powers are such as act in a direction not opposite to one another; cooperating powers.


Topic: Constable
Definition:
CONSTABLE, n. [L., a stable; count of the stable.]
1. The Lord High Constable of England, the seventh officer of the crown.  He had the care of the common peace, in deeds of arms, and matters of war; being a judge of the court of chivalry, now called the court of honor.  To this officer and to the Earl marshal belonged the cognizance of the contracts, deeds of arms, without the realm, and combats and blazonry within the realm.  The power of this officer was so great and so improperly used, that it was abridged by the 13th Richard II., and was afterwards forfeited in the person of Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, in 1521. It has never been granted to any person, since that time, except pro hac vice, or on a particular occasion.
2.  An officer of the peace.  In England, there are high constables, petty constables, and constables of London.  The high constables are chosen at the court leets of the franchise or hundred over which they preside, or in default of that, by the justices of the quarter sessions, and are removable by the same authority that appoints them.  The petty constables are chosen by the jury of the court leet, or if no court is held, they are appointed by two justices of the peace.  In London, a constable is nominated in each precinct by the inhabitants, and confirmed at the court of wardmote.  The duty of constables is to keep the peace, and for this purpose they are invested with the power of arresting and imprisoning, and of breaking open houses.
In the United States, constables are town or city officers of the peace, with powers similar to those possessed by the constables in Great Britain.  They are invested also with powers to  execute civil as well as criminal process, and to levy executions.  In New England, they are elected by the inhabitants of towns in legal meeting.
To overrun the constable, to spend more than a man is worth or can pay; a vulgar phrase.


Topic: Constancy
Definition:
CONSTANCY, n. [L., to stand.]
1. Fixedness; a standing firm; hence, applied to God or his works, immutability; unalterable continuance; a permanent state.
2. Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; steady, unshaken determination; particularly applicable to firmness of mind under sufferings, to steadiness in attachments, and to perseverence in enterprise.  Lasting affection; stability in love or friendship.
3. Certainty; veracity; reality.


Topic: Constant
Definition:
CONSTANT, a. [L.] 
1. Fixed; firm; opposed to fluid.
To turn two fluid liquors into a constant body.
[In this sense, not used.]
2. Fixed; not varied; unchanged; permanent; immutable.
The worlds a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
3. Fixed or firm in mind, purpose, affection or principle; unshaken; unmoved; as a constant friend or lover.
4. Certain; steady; firmly adherent; with to; as a man constant to his purpose, or to his duties.


Topic: Constantly
Definition:
CONSTANTLY, adv. Firmly; steadily; invariably; continually; perseveringly.
Rhoda constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts 12.
These things I will that thou affirm constantly. Titus 3.


Topic: Constat
Definition:
CONSTAT, n. [L., it appears.] 
1. In England, a certificate given by the clerk of the pipe and auditors of the exchequer, to a person who intends to plead or move for a discharge of any thing in that court.  The effect of it is to show what appears upon the record, respecting the matter in question.
2. An exemplification under the great seal of the enrollment of any letters patent.


Topic: Constellate
Definition:
CONSTELLATE, v.i. [Low L., to shine, a star.] To join luster; to shine with united radiance or one general light. [Little used.]
The several things which engage our affections shine forth and constellate in God.
CONSTELLATE, v.t. To unite several shining bodies in one splendor. [Little used.]


Topic: Constellated
Definition:
CONSTELLATED, pp.
1. United in one splendor.
2. Starry; set or adorned with stars or constellations.


Topic: Constellation
Definition:
CONSTELLATION, n. 
1. A cluster of fixed stars; an asterism; a number of stars which appear as if situated near each other in the heavens, and are considered as forming a particular division.  The constellations are reduced mostly to the figures of certain animals or other known things, as the bear, the bull, the ram, the balance, &c.
For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give their light. Isaiah 13.
2. An assemblage of splendors or excellencies.


Topic: Consternation
Definition:
CONSTERNATION, n. [L., to throw or strike down.] Astonishment; amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates a person for consultation and execution; excessive terror, wonder or surprise.


Topic: Constipate
Definition:
CONSTIPATE, v.t. [L., to crowd, or cram. See Stuff and Stop.]
1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to thicken or condense.
2. To stop, by filling a passage, and preventing motion; as, to constipate capillary vessels.
3. To fill or crowd the intestinal canal, and make costive.


Topic: Constipation
Definition:
CONSTIPATION, n. 
1. The act of crowding any thing into a less compass; a pressing together; condensation; as a close constipation of particles.
2. More generally, a crowding or filling to hardness the intestinal canal, from defective excretion; costiveness; obstipation.


Topic: Constituent
Definition:
CONSTITUENT, a. [L., to set. See Statue, Statute.] Setting; constituting; applied to parts of a thing that are essential to it.  Hence, necessary or essential; elemental; forming, composing or making as an essential part.
Body, soul, and reason, are the three constituent parts of a man.
Oxygen and hydrogen are the constituent parts of water.
CONSTITUENT, n. 
1. He or that which sets, fixes or forms; he or that which constitutes or composes.
Their first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
2. That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part.
The lymph in those glands is a necessary constituent of the aliment.
3. One who appoints or elects another to an office or employment.


Topic: Constitute
Definition:
CONSTITUTE, v.t. [L., to set.]
1. To set; to fix; to enact; to establish.
We must obey laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority, not against the law of God.
2. To form or compose; to give formal existence to; to make a thing what it is.
Perspicuity constitutes the prime excellence of style.
Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
3. To appoint, depute or elect to an office or employment; to make and empower.
A sheriff is constituted a conservator of the peace.
A has constituted B his attorney or agent.


Topic: Constitution
Definition:
CONSTITUTION, n. 
1. The act of constituting, enacting, establishing, or appointing.
2. The state of being; that form of being or peculiar structure and connection of parts which makes or characterizes a system or body.  Hence the particular frame or temperament of the human body is called its constitution.  We speak of a robust or feeble constitution; a cold, phlegmatic, sanguine or irritable constitution.  We speak of the constitution of the air, or other substance; the constitution of the solar system; the constitution of things.
3. The frame or temper of mind, affections or passions.
4. The established form of government in a state, kingdom or country; a system of fundamental rules, principles and ordinances for the government of a state or nation.  In free states, the constitution is paramount to the statutes or laws enacted by the legislature, limiting and controlling its power; and in the United States, the legislature is created, and its powers designated, by the constitution.
5. A particular law, ordinance, or regulation, made by the authority of any superior, civil or ecclesiastical; as the constitutions of Justinian and his successors.
6. A system of fundamental principles for the government of rational and social beings.
The New Testament is the moral constitution of modern society.


Topic: Constitutional
Definition:
CONSTITUTIONAL, a. 
1. Bred or inherent in the constitution, or in the natural frame of body or mind; as a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dulness.
2. Consistent with the constitution; authorized by the constitution or fundamental rules of a government; legal.
An act of Congress prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States is constitutional.
3. Relating to the constitution; as a constitutional doubt.


Topic: Constitutionalist
Definition:
CONSTITUTIONALIST, n. 
1. An adherent to the constitution of government.
2. An innovator of the old constitution, or a framer or friend of the new constitution in France.


Topic: Constitutionality
Definition:
CONSTITUTIONALITY, n. 
1. The state of being constitutional; the state of being inherent in the natural frame; as the constitutionality of disease.
2. The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions.
The judges of the supreme court of the United States have the power of determining the constitutionality of laws.


Topic: Constitutive
Definition:
CONSTITUTIVE, a. 
1. That constitutes, forms or composes; elemental; essential.
The constitutive parts of a schismatic, being the esteem of himself and contempt of others.
2. Having power to enact or establish; instituting.


Topic: Constrain
Definition:
CONSTRAIN, v.t. [L., to strain, to bind. See Strain.] In a general sense, to strain; to press; to urge; to drive; to exert force, physical or moral, either in urging to action or in restraining it.  Hence, 
1. To compel or force; to urge with irresistible power, or with a power sufficient to produce the effect.
The spirit within me constraineth me. Job 32.
I was constrained to appeal to Caesar. Acts 28.
For the love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Corinthians 5.
2. To confine by fore; to restrain from escape or action; to repress.
My sire in caves constrains the winds.
3. To hold by force; to press; to confine.
How the strait stays the slender waist constrain.
4. To constringe; to bind.
When winter frosts constrain the field with cold.
5. To tie fast; to bind; to chain; to confine.
He binds in chains the drowsy prophet, and his limbs constrains.
6. To necessitate.
Did fate or we the adulterous act constrain?
7. To force; to ravish. [Not used.]
8. To produce in opposition to nature; as a constrained voice; constrained notes.


Topic: Constrainable
Definition:
CONSTRAINABLE, a. That may be constrained, forced, or repressed; liable to constraint, or to restraint.


Topic: Constrained
Definition:
CONSTRAINED, pp. Urged irresistibly or powerfully; compelled; forced; restrained; confined; bound; imprisoned; necessitated.


Topic: Constraining
Definition:
CONSTRAINING, ppr. Urging with irresistible or powerful force; compelling; forcing; repressing; confining; holding by force; pressing; binding.


Topic: Constraint
Definition:
CONSTRAINT, n. Irresistible force, or its effect; any force, or power, physical or moral, which compels to act or to forbear action, or which urges so strongly as to produce its effect upon the body or mind; compulsion; restraint; confinement.
Not by constraint, but by my choice, I came.
Feed the flock of God, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly. 1 Peter 5. 


Topic: Constrict
Definition:
CONSTRICT, v.t. [L. See Constrain.] To draw together; to bind; to cramp; to draw into a narrow compass; hence, to contract or cause to shrink.


Topic: Constriction
Definition:
CONSTRICTION, n. A drawing together or contraction by means of some inherent power, or by spasm, as distinguished from compression, or the pressure of extraneous bodies; as the constriction of a muscle or fiber.  It may perhaps be sometimes used as synonymous with compression.


Topic: Constrictor
Definition:
CONSTRICTOR, n. 
1. That which draws together or contracts.  In anatomy, a muscle which draws together or closes an orifice of the body; as the constrictor labiorum, a muscle of the lips.
2. A species of serpents, the black snake of the United States.  Also, the Boa constrictor, the largest of known serpents.


Topic: Constringe
Definition:
CONSTRINGE, v.t. [L. See Constrain.] To draw together; to strain into a narrow compass; to contract; to force to contract itself.
Strong liquors constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids.


Topic: Construct
Definition:
CONSTRUCT, v.t. [L., to lay, dispose or set in order. See Structure.]
1. To put together the parts of a thing in their proper place and order; to build; to form; as, to construct an edifice.
2. To devise and compose, as to construct a new system; or simply to frame or form, as to construct a telescope.  The word may include the invention, with the formation, or not, at the pleasure of the writer.  A man constructs a ship according to a model; or a grammar by a new arrangement of principles; or a planetarium of a new form.
3. To interpret or understand. [See Construe.]


Topic: Construction
Definition:
CONSTRUCTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of building, or of devising and forming; fabrication.
2. The form of building; the manner of putting together the parts of a building, a machine, or a system; structure; conformation.
The sailing of a ship and its capacity depend chiefly on its construction.
3. In grammar, syntax, or the arrangement and connection of words in a sentence, according to established usages, or the practice of good writers and speakers.
4. Sense; meaning; interpretation; explanation; or the manner of understanding the arrangement of words, or of understanding facts.  Let us find the true construction; or let us give the authors words a sound, rational, consistent construction.  What construction can be put upon this affair, or upon the conduct of a man?
5. The manner of describing a figure or problem in geometry.  The drawing of such lines, such figure, &c., as are previously necessary for making any demonstration appear more plain and undeniable.
6. In algebra, the construction of equations is the method of reducing a known equation into lines and figures, in order to a geometrical demonstration.


Topic: Constructional
Definition:
CONSTRUCTIONAL, a. Pertaining to construction; deduced from construction or interpretation. [Unusual.]


Topic: Constructive
Definition:
CONSTRUCTIVE, a. By construction; created or deduced by construction, or mode of interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred; as constructive treason.
Stipulations, expressed or implied, formal or constructive.


Topic: Constructively
Definition:
CONSTRUCTIVELY, adv. In a constructive manner; by way of construction or interpretation; by fair inference.
A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government.


Topic: Construe
Definition:
CONSTRUE, v.t. [L. See Construct.]
1. To arrange words in their natural order; to reduce from a transposed to a natural order, so as to discover the sense of a sentence; hence, to interpret; and when applied to a foreign language, to translate; to render into English; as, to construe Greek, Latin or French.
2. To interpret; to explain; to show or to understand the meaning.
I pray that I may not be so understood or construed.
Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words.


Topic: Consubstantial
Definition:
CONSUBSTANTIAL, a. [L. See Substance.]
1. Having the same substance or essence; co-essential.
The orthodox believe the Son to be consubstantial with the Father.
2. Of the same kind or nature.
It continueth a body consubstantial with ours.


Topic: Consubstantiality
Definition:
CONSUBSTANTIALITY, n. 
1. The existence of more than one in the same substance; as, the co-eternity and consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
2. Participation of the same nature.


Topic: Consubstantiate
Definition:
CONSUBSTANTIATE, v.t. [L, substance.] To unite in one common substance or nature.
CONSUBSTANTIATE, v.i. To profess consubstantiation.


Topic: Consubstantiation
Definition:
CONSUBSTANTIATION, n. The union of the body of our blessed Savior with the sacramental elements.  The Lutherans maintain that after consecration of the elements, the body and blood of Christ are substantially present with the substance of the bread and wine, which is called consubstantiation or impanation.


Topic: Consul
Definition:
CONSUL, n. [L., to consult.]
1. The chief magistrate of the Ancient Roman Republic, invested with regal authority for one year.  There were two consuls, annually chosen in the campus Martius.  In the first ages of Tome, they were elected from Patrician families or noblemen; but in the year of Rome 388, the people obtained the privilege of electing one of the consuls from their own body, and sometimes both were plebeians.
2. In modern usage, the name consul is given to a person commissioned by a king or state to reside in a foreign country as an agent or representative, to protect the rights, commerce, merchants and seamen of the state, and to aid the government in any commercial transactions with such foreign country.
3. An adviser. [Not well authorized.]


Topic: Consulage
Definition:
CONSULAGE, n. A duty laid by the British Levant Company on imports and exports for the support of the companys affairs.


Topic: Consulate
Definition:
CONSULATE, n. [L.] The office of a consul. [ This is applicable to modern consuls, as well as to the Roman.]
2. The jurisdiction or extent of a consuls authority.


Topic: Consult
Definition:
CONSULT, v.i. [L., to consult, to ask counsel.]
1. To seek the opinion or advice of another by, by a statement of facts, and suitable inquiries, for the purpose of directing ones own judgment; followed by with.
Rehoboam consulted with the old men. 1 Kings 12.
David consulted with the captains of thousands. 1 Chronicles 13.
2. To take counsel together; to seek opinions and advice by mutual statements, enquiries and reasonings; to deliberate in common.
The chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus to death.  John 12.
3. To consider with deliberation. Luke 14.
CONSULT, v.t. 
1. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of another, as a guide to ones own judgment; as, to consult a friend or parent.
2. To seek information, or facts, in something; as by examining books or papers, Thus, I consulted several authors on the subject; I consulted the official documents.
3. To regard; to have reference or respect to, in judging or acting; to decide or to act in favor of.  We are to consult the necessities, rather than the pleasures of life.  We are to consult public as well as private interest.  He consulted his own safety in flight.
Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.
4. To plan, devise or contrive.
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people. Habakkuk 2. [This sense is unusual and not to be countenanced.]
CONSULT, n. The act of consulting; the effect of consultation; determination; a council, or deliberating assembly.  This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete, except in poetry.  It would be naturally accented on the first syllable, but the poets accent the last.


Topic: Consultation
Definition:
CONSULTATION, n. 
1. The act of consulting; deliberation of two or more persons, with a view to some decision.
The chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes. Mark 15. 
2. The persons who consult together; a number of persons seeking mutually each others opinions and advice; a council for deliberation; as, a consultation of physicians was called.
 Writ of consultation, in law, a writ awarded by a superior court, to return a cause, which had been removed by prohibition from the court Christian, to its original jurisdiction; so called because the judges on consultation find the prohibition ill founded.


Topic: Consulter
Definition:
CONSULTER, n. One who consults, or asks counsel or information; as a consulter with familiar spirits. Deuteronomy 18.


Topic: Consulting
Definition:
CONSULTING, ppr. Asking advice; seeking information; deliberating and enquiring mutually; regarding.


Topic: Consumable
Definition:
CONSUMABLE, a. [See Consume.] That may be consumed; possible to be destroyed, dissipated, wasted or spent; as, asbestos is not consumable by fire.
The importation and exportation of consumable commodities.


Topic: Consume
Definition:
CONSUME, v.t. [L., to take.  So in English we say, it takes up time, that is, it consumes time.]
1. To destroy, by separating the parts of a thing, by decomposition, as by fire, or eating, devouring, and annihilating the form of a substance.  Fire consumes wood, coal, stubble; animals consume flesh and vegetables.
2. To destroy by dissipating or by use; to expend; to waste; to squander; as, to consume an estate.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4.
3. To spend; to cause to pass away, as time; as, to consume the day in idleness.
Their days did he consume in vanity. Psalm 78.
4. To cause to disappear; to waste slowly. 
My flesh is consumed away. Job 38. 
5. To destroy; to bring to utter ruin; to exterminate.
Let me alone-- that I may consume them. Exodus 32. 
CONSUME, v.i. To waste away slowly; to be exhausted.
Their flesh--their eyes--their tongue shall consume away. Zechariah 14.
The wicked shall perish--they shall consume. Psalm 37. 


Topic: Consuming
Definition:
CONSUMING, ppr. 
1. Burning; wasting; destroying; expending; eating; devouring.
2. a. That destroys.
The Lord thy God is a consuming fire. Deuteronomy 4. 


Topic: Consummate
Definition:
CONSUMMATE, v.t. [L. See Sum.] To end; to finish by completing what was intended; to perfect; to bring or carry to the utmost point or degree.
He had a mind to consummate the happiness of the day.
CONSUMMATE, a. Complete; perfect; carried to the utmost extent or degree; as consummate greatness or felicity.


Topic: Consummation
Definition:
CONSUMMATION, n. [L.]
1. Completion; end; perfection of a word, process or scheme. 
2. The end or completion of the present system of things; the end of the world.
3. Death; the end of life.
Consummation of marriage, the most intimate union of the sexes, which completes the connubial relation.


Topic: Consumption
Definition:
CONSUMPTION, n. [L. See Consume.]
1. The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time; as the consumption of fuel, of food, of commodities or estate, of time, &c. 
2. The state of being wasted, or diminished.
Etna and Vesuvius have not suffered any considerable diminution or consumption.
3. In medicine, a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay or diminution of the body; a word of extensive signification.  But particularly, the disease called phthisis pulmonalis, pulmonic consumption, a disease seated in the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, &c.


Topic: Consumptive
Definition:
CONSUMPTIVE, a. 
1. Destructive; wasting; exhausting; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; as a long consumptive war.
2. Affected with a consumption or pumonic disease, as consumptive lungs; or inclined to a consumption; tending to the phthisis pulmonalis; applied to the incipient state of the disease, or to a constitution predisposed to it.


Topic: Contact
Definition:
CONTACT, n. [L., to touch. See Touch.] A touching; touch; close union or juncture of bodies.  Two bodies come in contact, when they meet without any sensible intervening space; the parts that touch are called the points of contact.


Topic: Contagion
Definition:
CONTAGION, n. [L., to touch.]
1. Literally, a touch or touching. Hence, the communication of a disease by contact, or the matter communicated.  More generally, that subtil matter which proceeds from a diseased person or body, and communicates the disease to another person; as in cases of small pox, measles, anginas, and malignant fevers; diseases which are communicated without contact.  This contagion proceeds from the breath of the diseased, from the perspiration of other excretions.
2. That which communicates evil from one to another; infection; that which propagates mischief; as the contagion of vice or of evil examples.
3. Pestilence; a pestilential disease; venomous exhalations.


Topic: Contagious
Definition:
CONTAGIOUS, a. 
1. Containing or generating contagion; catching; that may be communicated by contact, or by a subtil excreted matter; as a contagious disease.
2. Poisonous; pestilential; containing contagion; as contagious air; contagious clothing.
3. Containing mischief that may be propagated; as contagious example.
4. That may be communicated from one to another, or may excite like affections in others.
His genius rendered his courage more contagious.


Topic: Contain
Definition:
CONTAIN, v.t. [L., to hold. See Tenet, Tenure.]
1. To hold, as a vessel; as, the vessel contains a gallon.  Hence, to have capacity; to be able to hold; applied to an empty vessel.
2. To comprehend; to hold within specified limits.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. 1 Kings 8.
3. To comprehend; to comprise. The history of Livy contains a hundred and forty books.
4. To hold within limits prescribed; to restrain; to withhold from trespass or disorder.
The Kings person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
Fear not, my Lord, we can contain ourselves.
5. To include. This article is not contained in the account.  This number does not contain the article specified.
6. To inclose; as, this cover or envelop contains a letter.
CONTAIN, v.i. To live in continence or chastity. Arbuthnot and Pope. 1 Corinthians 7.


Topic: Contaminate
Definition:
CONTAMINATE, v.t. [L., to defile.] To defile; to pollute; usually in a figurative sense; to sully; to tarnish; to taint.  Lewdness contaminates character; cowardice contaminates honor.
Shall we now contaminate our fingers with base bribes?
CONTAMINATE, a. Polluted; defiled; corrupt.


Topic: Contemn
Definition:
CONTEMN, v.t. [L., to despise; to drive away.]
1. To despise; to consider and treat as mean and despicable; to scorn.
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned. Psalm 15.
2. To slight; to neglect as unworthy of regard; to reject with disdain.
Wherefore do the wicked contemn God. Psalm 10.
They contemn the counsel of the Most High.  Psalm 107.


Topic: Contemning
Definition:
CONTEMNING, ppr. Despising; slighting as vile or despicable; neglecting or rejecting, as unworthy of regard.


Topic: Contemper
Definition:
CONTEMPER, v.t. [L., to mix or temper. See Temper.] To moderate; to reduce to a lower degree by mixture with opposite or different qualities; to temper.
The leaves qualify and contemper the heat.


Topic: Contemperament
Definition:
CONTEMPERAMENT, n. Moderated or qualified degree; a degree of any quality reduced to that of another; temperament.


Topic: Contemperate
Definition:
CONTEMPERATE, v.t. [See Contemper.] To temper; to reduce the quality of, by mixing something opposite or different; to moderate.


Topic: Contemperation
Definition:
CONTEMPERATION, n. 
1. The act of reducing a quality by admixture of the contrary; the act of moderating or tempering.
2. Temperament; proportionate mixture; as the contemperament of humors in different bodies.
[Instead of these words, temper and temperament are now generally used.]


Topic: Contemplate
Definition:
CONTEMPLATE, v.t. [L.]
1. To view or consider with continued attention; to study; to meditate on. This word expresses the attention of the mind, but sometimes in connection with that of the eyes; as, to contemplate the heavens.  More generally, the act of the mind only is intended; as, to contemplate the wonders of redemption; to contemplate the state of the nation and its future prospects.
2. To consider or have in view, in reference to a future act or event; to intend.
A decree of the National Assembly of France, June 26, 1792, contemplates a supply from the United States of four millions of livres.
There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
CONTEMPLATE, v.i. To think studiously; to study; to muse; to meditate.
He delights to contemplate on the works of creation.


Topic: Contemplation
Definition:
CONTEMPLATION, n. [L.] 
1. The act of the mind in considering with attention; meditation; study; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject.
Contemplation is keeping the idea, brought into the mind, some time actually in view.
2. Holy meditation; attention to sacred things; a particular application of the foregoing definition.
To have in contemplation, to intend or purpose, or to have under consideration.


Topic: Contemplative
Definition:
CONTEMPLATIVE, a. 
1. Given to contemplation, or continued application of the mind to a subject; studious; thoughtful; as a contemplative philosopher, or mind.
2. Employed in study; as a contemplative life.
3. Having the appearance of study, or a studious habit; as a contemplative look.
4. Having the power of thought or meditation; as the contemplative faculty of man.


Topic: Contemplator
Definition:
CONTEMPLATOR, n. One who contemplates; one employed in study or meditation; an inquirer after knowledge.


Topic: Contemporary
Definition:
CONTEMPORARY, a. [L., time. For the sake of easier pronunciation and a ore agreeable sound, this word is often changed to cotemporary.] Coetaneous; living at the same time, applied to persons; being or existing at the same time, applied to things; as contemporary kings; contemporary events. [See Cotemporary, the preferable word.]
CONTEMPORARY, n. One who lives at the same time with another.
Socrates and Plato were contemporaries.


Topic: Contempt
Definition:
CONTEMPT, n. [L. See Contemn.]
1. The act of despising; the act of viewing or considering and treating as mean, vile and worthless; disdain; hatred of what is mean or deemed vile.  This word is one of the strongest expressions of a mean opinion which the language affords.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
2. The state of being despised; whence in a scriptural sense, shame, disgrace.
Some shall awake to everlasting contempt.  Daniel 7.
3. In law, disobedience of the rules and orders of a court, which is a punishable offense.


Topic: Contemptible
Definition:
CONTEMPTIBLE, a. [L.]
1. Worthy of contempt; that deserves scorn, or disdain; despicable; mean; vile.  Intemperance is a contemptible vice. No plant or animal is so contemptible as not to exhibit evidence of the wonderful power and wisdom of the Creator.
The pride that leads to dueling is a contemptible passion.
2. Apt to despise; contemptuous. [Not legitimate.]


Topic: Contemptibleness
Definition:
CONTEMPTIBLENESS, n. The state of being contemptible, or of being despised; despicableness; meanness; vileness.


Topic: Contemptuous
Definition:
CONTEMPTUOUS, a. Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; as contemptuous language or manner; a contemptuous opinion. Applied to men, apt to despise; haughty; insolent; as a nation, proud, severe, contemptuous.


Topic: Contemptuously
Definition:
CONTEMPTUOUSLY, adv. In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and treated contemptuously.


Topic: Contemptuousness
Definition:
CONTEMPTUOUSNESS, n. Disposition to contempt; act of contempt; insolence; scornfulness; haughtiness.


Topic: Contend
Definition:
CONTEND, v.i. [L., to stretch. Gr., See Tend, Tenet.]
1. To strive, or to strive against; to struggle in opposition.
Distress not the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle. Deuteronomy 2.
2. To strive; to use earnest efforts to obtain, or to defend and preserve.
You sit above, and see vain men below contend for what you only can bestow.
Ye should earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. Jude 3.
3. To dispute earnestly; to strive in debate.
They that were of the circumcision contended with him. Acts 11. Job 9.
4. To reprove sharply; to chide; to strive to convince and reclaim.
Then contended I with the rulers. Nehemiah 13.
5.To strive in opposition; to punish.
The Lord God called to contend by fire. Amos 7.
6. To quarrel; to dispute fiercely; to wrangle. The parties contend about trifles.
To contend for, to strive to obtain; as, two competitors contend for the prize.
CONTEND, v.t. To dispute; to contest.
When Carthage shall contend the world with Rome.
This transitive use of contend is not strictly legitimate.  The phrase is elliptical, for being understood after contend; but it is admissible in poetry.


Topic: Contending
Definition:
CONTENDING, ppr. 
1. Striving; struggling to oppose; debating; urging in argument; quarreling.
2. Clashing; opposing; rival; as contending claims or interests.


Topic: Content
Definition:
CONTENT, a. [L., to be held; to hold.] Literally, held, contained within limits; hence, quiet; not disturbed; having a mind at peace; easy; satisfied, so as not to repine, object, or oppose.
Content with science in the vale of peace.
Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. 1 Timothy 6.
CONTENT, v.t. 
1. To satisfy the mind; to make quiet, so as to stop complaint or opposition; to appease; to make easy in any situation; used chiefly with the reciprocal pronoun.
Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be obtained.
Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas. Mark 15.
2. To please or gratify.
It doth much content me, to hear him so inclined.
CONTENT, n. 
1. Rest or quietness of the mind in the present condition; satisfaction which holds the mind in peace, restraining complaint, opposition, or further desire, and often implying a moderate degree of happiness.
A wise content his even soul securd; By want not shaken, nor by wealth allurd.
2. Acquiescence; satisfaction without examination.
The style is excellent; the sense they humbly take upon content.
3. The term used in the House of Lords in England, to express an assent to a bill or motion.
CONTENT, n. 
1. Often in the plural, contents. That which is contained; the thing or things held, included or comprehended within a limit or line; as the contents of a cask or bale; of a room or a ship; the contents of a book or writing.
2. In geometry, the area or quantity of matter or space included in certain lines.
3. The power of containing; capacity; extent within limits; as a ship of great content.
[But in this sense the plural is generally used.]


Topic: Contented
Definition:
CONTENTED, pp. or a. Satisfied; quiet; easy in mind; not complaining, opposing or demanding more. The good man is contented with his lot.  It is our duty to be contented with the dispensations of providence.


Topic: Contentedness
Definition:
CONTENTEDNESS, n. State of resting in mind; quiet; satisfaction of mind with any condition or event.


Topic: Contention
Definition:
CONTENTION, n. [L. See Contend.]
1. Strife; struggle; a violent effort to obtain something, or to resist a person, claim or injury; contest; quarrel.
Multitudes lost their lives in a tumult raised by contention among the partizans of the several colors.
2. Strife in words or debate; quarrel; angry contest; controversy.
Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. Titus 3. 
A fools lips enter into contention. Proverbs 18. 
3. Strife or endeavor to excel; emulation.
4. Eagerness; zeal; ardor; vehemence of endeavor.
This is an end worthy of our utmost contention to obtain.


Topic: Contentious
Definition:
CONTENTIOUS, a. 
1. Apt to contend; given to angry debate; quarrelsome; perverse.
A continual dropping in a rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike. Proverbs 27.
2. Relating to contention in law; relating to litigation; having power to decide causes between contending parties; as a court of contentious jurisdiction.
3. Exciting or adapted to provoke contention or disputes; as a contentious subject.


Topic: Contentment
Definition:
CONTENTMENT, n.
1. Content; a resting or satisfaction of mind without disquiet; acquiescence.
Contentment, without external honor, is humility.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Timothy 6.
2. Gratification.
At Paris the prince spent a day, to give his mind some contentment.


Topic: Conterminous
Definition:
CONTERMINOUS, a. [L., con and terminus, a border.] Bordering upon; touching at the boundary; contiguous; as a people conterminous to the Roman territory.


Topic: Conterranean
Definition:
CONTERRANEAN, CONTERRANEOUS, a. [L., con and terra, country.] Being of the same country. [Not used.]


Topic: Contest
Definition:
CONTEST, v.t. [L., have a different sense, being equivalent to the English attest. See Test.]
1. To dispute; to strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.  The troops contested every inch of ground.
2. To dispute; to argue in opposition to; to controvert; to litigate; to oppose; to call in question; as, the advocate contested every point.
None have contested the proportion of these ancient pieces.
CONTEST, v.i.
1. To strive; to contend; followed by with.
The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
2. To vie; to emulate.
Of man who dares in pomp with Jove contest.
CONTEST, n. 
1. Strife; struggle for victory, superiority, or in defense; struggle in arms.  All Europe engaged in the contest against France. The contest was furious.
2. Dispute; debate; violent controversy; strife in argument.
Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors, and brawling language.


Topic: Contestation
Definition:
CONTESTATION, n. 
1. The act of contesting; strife; dispute.
After years spent in domestic contestations, she found means to withdraw.
2. Testimony; proof by witnesses.


Topic: Context
Definition:
CONTEXT, n. [L. Con and texo, to weave.] The general series or composition of a discourse; more particularly, the parts of a discourse which precede or follow the sentence quoted; the passages of scripture which are near the text, either before it or after it. The sense of a passage of scripture is often illustrated by the context.
CONTEXT, a. Knit or woven together; close; firm.


Topic: Contexture
Definition:
CONTEXTURE, n. The manner of interweaving several parts into one body; the disposition and union of the constituent parts of a thing, with respect to each other; composition of parts; constitution; as a silk of admirable contexture.
He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.


Topic: Contignation
Definition:
CONTIGNATION, n. [L., a beam.] 
1. A frame of beams; a story.
2. The act of framing together, or uniting beams in a fabric.


Topic: Contiguous
Definition:
CONTIGUOUS, a. [L., con and tango, tago, to touch.] Touching; meeting or joining at the surface or border; as two contiguous bodies or countries.
The houses in ancient Rome were not contiguous.
Usually followed by to.  Bacon uses with, but he has not been followed.


Topic: Continence
Definition:
CONTINENCE, CONTINENCY, n. [L., to hold, or withhold; con and teneo, to hold. See Tenet.]
1. In a general sense, the restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; self-command.
2. Appropriately, the restraint of the passion for sexual enjoyment; resistance of concupiscence; forbearance of lewd pleasures; hence, chastity.  But the term is usually applied to males, as chastity is to females.  Scipio the younger exhibited the nobles example of continence recorded in Pagan history; an example surpassed only by that of Joseph in sacred history.
3. Forbearance of lawful pleasure.
Content without lawful venery, is continence; without unlawful, is chastity.
4. Moderation in the indulgence of sexual enjoyment.
Chastity is either abstinence or continence; abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence, that of married persons.
5. Continuity; uninterrupted course. [Not now used.]


Topic: Continent
Definition:
CONTINENT, a. [L.]
1. Refraining from unlawful sexual commerce, or moderate in the indulgence of lawful pleasure; chaste.
2. Restrained; moderate; temperate. 
Have a continent forbearance.
3. Opposing; restraining.
4. Continuous; connected; not interrupted.  
The North East part of Asia, if not continent with America--
A continent fever. More generally we now say a continued fever.
CONTINENT, n. 
1. In geography, a great extent of land, not disjoined or interrupted by a sea; a connected tract of land of great extent; as the Eastern and Western continent.  It differs from an isle only in extent. New Holland may be denominated a continent. Britain is called a continent, as opposed to the isle of Anglesey.
In Spenser, continent is use for ground in general.
2. That which contains any thing. [Not used.]


Topic: Continental
Definition:
CONTINENTAL, a. Pertaining or relating to a continent; as the continental powers of Europe.  In America, pertaining to the United States, as continental money, in distinction from what pertains to the separate states; a word much used during the revolution.


Topic: Contingence
Definition:
CONTINGENCE, CONTINGENCY, n. [L., to fall or happen to; to touch. See Touch.]
1. The quality of being contingent or casual; a happening; or the possibility of coming to pass.
We are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions.
2. Casualty; accident; fortuitous event. The success of the attempt will depend on contingencies. [See Accident and Casualty.]


Topic: Contingent
Definition:
CONTINGENT, a. 
1. Falling or coming by chance, that is, without design or expectation on our part; accidental; casual.  On our part, we speak of chance or contingencies; but with an infinite being, nothing can be contingent.
2. In law, depending on an uncertainty; as a contingent remainder.
CONTINGENT, n. 
1. A fortuitous event; that which comes without our design, foresight or expectation.
2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a quota; an equal or suitable share; proportion.  Each prince furnishes his contingent of men, money and munitions.


Topic: Continual
Definition:
CONTINUAL, a. [L. See Continue.]
1. Proceeding without interruption or cessation; unceasing; not intermitting; used in reference to time.
He that hath a merry heart hath a continual feast. Proverbs 15.
I have great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart. Romans 9.
2. Very frequent; often repeated; as, the charitable man has continual application for alms.
3. Continual fever, or continued fever, a fever that abates, but never entirely intermits, till it comes to a crisis; thus distinguished from remitting and intermitting fever.
4. Continual claim, in law, a claim that is made from time to time within every year or day, to land or other estate, the possession of which cannot be obtained without hazard.
5. Perpetual.


Topic: Continually
Definition:
CONTINUALLY, adv.
1. Without pause or cessation; unceasingly; as, the ocean is continually rolling its waves on the shore.
2. Very often; in repeated succession; from time to time.
Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. 2 Samuel 9.


Topic: Continuance
Definition:
CONTINUANCE, n. [See Continue.]
1. A holding on or remaining in a particular state, or in a course or series. Applied to time, duration; a state of lasting; as the continuance of rain or fair weather for a day or week.  Sensual pleasure is of short continuance.
2. Perseverance; as, no excuse will justify a continuance in sin.
By patient continuance in well doing. Romans 2.
3. Abode; residence; as, during our continuance in Paris.
4. Succession uninterrupted; continuation; a prolonging of existence; as, the brute regards the continuance of his species.
5. Progression of time.
In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned. Psalm  139.
6. In law, the deferring of a suit, or the giving of a day for the parties to a suit to appear.  After issue or demurrer joined, as well as in some of the previous stages of proceeding, a day is continually given, and entered upon record, for the parties to appear on from time to time.  The giving of this day is called a continuance.
7. In the United States, the deferring of a trial or suit from one stated term of the court to another.
8. Continuity; resistance to a separation of parts; a holding together. [Not used.]


Topic: Continuate
Definition:
CONTINUATE, v.t. To join closely together.
CONTINUATE, a. [L.]
1. Immediately united; holding together. [Little used.]
2. Uninterrupted; unbroken. [Little used.]


Topic: Continuation
Definition:
CONTINUATION, n. [L.]
1. Extension of existence in a series or line; succession uninterrupted.
These things must be the works of providence, for the continuation of the species.
2. Extension or carrying on to a further point; as the continuation of a story.
3. Extension in space; production; a carrying on in length; as the continuation of a line in surveying.


Topic: Continuative
Definition:
CONTINUATIVE, n. 
1. An expression noting permanence or duration.
To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes at least two propositions, viz. Rome was, and Rome is.
2. In grammar, a word that continues.


Topic: Continue
Definition:
CONTINUE, v.i. [L., to hold. See Tenet.]
1. To remain in a state, or place; to abide for any time indefinitely.
The multitude continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. Matthew 15.
2. To last; to be durable; to endure; to be permanent.
Thy kingdom shall not continue. 1 Samuel 13.
3. To persevere; to be steadfast or constant in any course.
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John 8.
CONTINUE, v.t. 
1. To protract; not to cease from or to terminate.
O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee. Psalm 36.
2. To extend from one thing to another; to produce or draw out in length.  Continue the line from A to B. Let the line be continued to the boundary.
3. To persevere in; not to cease to do or use; as, to continue the same diet.
4. To hold to or unite. [Not used.]
The navel continues the infant to its mother.


Topic: Continued
Definition:
CONTINUED, pp.
1. Drawn out; protracted; produced; extended in length; extended without interruption.
2. a. Extended in time without intermission; proceeding without cessation; unceasing; as a continued fever, which abates but never entirely intermits.  A continued base is performed through the whole piece.
Continued proportion, in arithmetic, is where the consequent of the first ratio is the same with the antecedent of the second, as 4 : 8 : : 8 : 16, in contradistinction from discrete proportion.


Topic: Continuing
Definition:
CONTINUING, ppr. 
1. Remaining fixed or permanent; abiding; lasting; enduring; persevering; protracting; producing in length.
2. a. Permanent.
Here we have no continuing city. Hebrews 13.


Topic: Continuity
Definition:
CONTINUITY, n. [L.] Connection uninterrupted; cohesion; close union of parts; unbroken texture.
Philosophers talk of the solution of continuity.


Topic: Contorsion
Definition:
CONTORTION, CONTORSION, n. [L.]
1. A twisting; a writhing; a wresting; a twist; wry motion; as the contorsion of the muscles of the face.
2. In medicine, a twisting or wresting of a limb or member of the body out of its natural situation; the iliac passion; partial dislocation; distorted spine; contracted neck.


Topic: Contorted
Definition:
CONTORTED, pp. Twisted together. A contorted corol, in botany, has the edge of one petal lying over the next, in an oblique direction.


Topic: Contra
Definition:
CONTRA. A Latin preposition signifying against, in opposition, entering into the composition of some English words.  It appears to be a compound of con and tra, like intra; tra for W. tras. Fr. contre.


Topic: Contra-dance
Definition:
CONTRA-DANCE, COUNTER-DANCE, n. A dance in which the partners are arranged in opposition, or in opposite lines.


Topic: Contraband
Definition:
CONTRABAND, a. [See Ban.] Prohibited.  Contraband goods are such as are prohibited to be imported or exported, either by the laws of a particular kingdom or state, or by the law of nations, or by special treaties.  In time of war, arms and munitions of war are not permitted by one belligerent, to be transported to the other, but are held to be contraband and liable to capture and condemnation.
CONTRABAND, n. 
1. Prohibition of trading in goods, contrary to the laws of a state or of nations.
2. Illegal traffick.


Topic: Contract
Definition:
CONTRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See Draw.]
1. To draw together or nearer; to draw into a less compass, either in length or breadth; to shorten; to abridge; to narrow; to lessen; as, to contract an inclosure; to contract the faculties; to contract the period of life; to contract the sphere of action.
2. To draw the parts together; to wrinkle; as, to contract the brow.
3. To betroth; to affiance. A contracted his daughter to B. The lady was contracted to a man of merit.
4. To draw to; to bring on; to incur; to gain. We contract vicious habits by indulgence.  We contract debt by extravagance.
5. To shorten by omission of a letter or syllable; as, to contract a word.
6. To epitomize; to abridge; as, to contract an essay.
CONTRACT, v.i.
1. To shrink; to become shorter or narrower.
Many bodies contract by the application of cold.
A hempen cord contracts by moisture.
2. To bargain; to make a mutual agreement, as between two or more persons.  We have contracted for a load of flour; or we have contracted with a farmer for a quantity of provisions.
CONTRACT, for contracted, pp. Affianced; betrothed.
CONTRACT, n. 
1. An agreement or covenant between two or more persons, in which each party binds himself to do or forbear some act, and each acquires a right to what the other promises; a mutual promise upon lawful consideration or promise upon lawful consideration or cause, which binds the parties to a performance; a bargain; a compact.  Contracts are executory or executed.
2. The act by which a man and woman are betrothed, each to the other.
3. The writing which contains the agreement of parties with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.


Topic: Contracted
Definition:
CONTRACTED, pp. 
1. Drawn together, or into a shorter or narrower compass; shrunk; betrothed; incurred; bargained.
2. a. Narrow; mean; selfish; as a man of a contracted soul or mind.


Topic: Contractedness
Definition:
CONTRACTEDNESS, n. 
1. The state of being contracted.
2. Narrowness; meanness; excessive selfishness.


Topic: Contractibility
Definition:
CONTRACTIBILITY, n. Possibility of being contracted; quality of suffering contraction; as the contractibility and dilatibility of air.


Topic: Contractile
Definition:
CONTRACTILE, a. Tending to contract; having the power of shortening or of drawing into smaller dimensions; as the contractile force of certain elastic bodies.


Topic: Contracting
Definition:
CONTRACTING, ppr.
1. Shortening or narrowing; drawing together; lessening dimensions; shrinking; making a bargain; betrothing.
2. a. Making or having made a contract or treaty; stipulating; as the contracting parties to a league.


Topic: Contraction
Definition:
CONTRACTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of drawing together, or shrinking; the act of shortening, narrowing or lessening extent or dimensions, by causing the parts of a body to approach nearer to each other; the state of being contracted.
Oil of vitriol will throw the stomach into involuntary contractions.
The contraction of the heart is called systole.
Some things induce a contraction of the nerves.
2. The act of shortening, abridging, or reducing within a narrower compass by any means.  A poem may be improved by omissions or contractions.
3. In grammar, the shortening of a word, by the omission of a letter or syllable; as, cant for cannot; burst for bursted or bursten; Swedish and Danish ord, a word.
4. A contract; marriage contract. [Not used.]
5. Abbreviation.


Topic: Contractor
Definition:
CONTRACTOR, n. 
1. One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do any thing for another.
2. One who contracts or covenants with a government to furnish provisions or other supplies or to perform any work or service for the public, at a certain price or rate.


Topic: Contradict
Definition:
CONTRADICT, v.t. [L., to speak.]
1. To oppose by words; to assert the contrary to what has been asserted, or to deny what has been affirmed.
It is not lawful to contradict a point of history known to all the world.
The Jews--spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts 13.
2. To oppose; to be directly contrary to.
No truth can contradict another truth.


Topic: Contradiction
Definition:
CONTRADICTION, n. [L.]
1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial; contrary declaration.
2. Opposition, whether by words, reproaches or attempts to defeat.
Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself.  Hebrews 12.
3. Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency with itself; incongruity or contrariety of things, words, thoughts or propositions.  These theorems involve a contradiction.
If we perceive truth, we thereby perceive whatever is false in contradiction to it.


Topic: Contradictious
Definition:
CONTRADICTIOUS, a. 
1. Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
2. Inclined to contradict; disposed to deny or cavil.
3. Opposite; inconsistent.


Topic: Contradictiousness
Definition:
CONTRADICTIOUSNESS, n. 
1. Inconsistency; contrariety to itself.
2. Disposition to contradict or cavil.


Topic: Contradictorily
Definition:
CONTRADICTORILY, adv. In a contradictory manner; in a manner inconsistent with itself, or opposite to others.


Topic: Contradictory
Definition:
CONTRADICTORY, a. 
1. Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; as contradictory assertion.
2. Inconsistent; opposite; contrary; as contradictory schemes.
CONTRADICTORY, n.  A proposition which denies or opposes another in all its terms; contrariety; inconsistency.
It is common with princes to will contradictories.


Topic: Contradistinction
Definition:
CONTRADISTINCTION, n. [contra and distinction.] Distinction by opposite qualities. 
We speak of sins of infirmity, in contradistinction to those of presumption.


Topic: Contradistinguish
Definition:
CONTRADISTINGUISH, v.t. [contra and distinguish.] To distinguish not merely by differential, but by opposite qualities.
These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished.


Topic: Contrafissure
Definition:
CONTRAFISSURE, n. [contra and fissure.] In surgery, a fissure or fracture in the cranium, on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.


Topic: Contraindicate
Definition:
CONTRAINDICATE, v.t. [contra and indicate.] In medicine, to indicate some method of cure, contrary to that which the general tenor of the disease requires; or to forbid that to be done which the main scope of the malady points out.


Topic: Contraindication
Definition:
CONTRAINDICATION, n. An indication, from some peculiar symptom or fact, that forbids the method of cure which the main symptoms or nature of the disease requires.


Topic: Contraries
Definition:
CONTRARIES, n. [See Contrary.] In logic, propositions which destroy each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.
If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.


Topic: Contrariety
Definition:
CONTRARIETY, n. [L. See Contrary.]
1. Opposition in fact, essence, quality or principle; repugnance.  The expedition failed by means of a contrariety of winds. There is a contrariety in the nature of virtue and vice; of love and hatred; of truth and falsehood.  Among men of the same profession, we find a contrariety of opinions.
2. Inconsistency; quality or position destructive of its opposite.
How can these contrarieties agree.


Topic: Contrariwise
Definition:
CONTRARIWISE, adv. [contrary and wise, manner.] On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.
Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing. 1 Peter 3.


Topic: Contrary
Definition:
CONTRARY, a. [L., against.]
1. Opposite; adverse; moving against or in an opposite direction; as contrary winds.
2. Opposite; contradictory; not merely different, but inconsistent or repugnant.
The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary, the one to the other. Galatians 5.
This adjective, in many phrases, is to be treated grammatically as an adverb, or as an adjective referring to a sentence or affirmation; as, this happened contrary to my expectations.  The word here really belongs to the affirmation or fact declared, this happened; for contrary does not, like an adverb, express the manner of happening, but that the fact itself was contrary to my expectation.  According, agreeable, pursuant, antecedent, prior, anterior, &c., are often used in the like manner.
CONTRARY, n. 
1. A thing that is contrary or of opposite qualities.
No contraries hold more antipathy, than I and such a knave.
2. A proposition contrary to another, or a fact contrary to what is alledged; as, this is stated to be a fact, but I will endeavor to show the contrary.
On the contrary, in opposition; on the other side.
To the contrary, to an opposite purpose, or fact.
They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary.
He said it was just, but I told him to the contrary.
CONTRARY, v.t. To contradict or oppose.


Topic: Contrast
Definition:
CONTRAST, v.t.
1. To set in opposition two or more figures of a like kind, with a view to show the difference or dissimilitude, and to manifest the superior excellence of the one by the inferiority of the other, or  to exhibit the excellence of the one and the defects of the other in a more striking view; as, to contrast two picture or statues.
2. To exhibit differences or dissimilitude in painting and sculpture, by position or attitude, either of the whole figure or of its members; or to show to advantage by opposition or difference of position.
3. To set in opposition different things or qualities, to show the superior excellence of one to advantage.
To contrast the goodness of God with our rebellion, will tend to make us humble and thankful.
CONTRAST, n. 
1. Opposition or dissimilitude of figures, by which one contributes to the visibility or effect of the other.  Contrast, in this sense, is applicable to things of a similar kind.  We never speak of a contrast between a man and a mountain, or between a dog and a tree; but we observe the contrast between an oak and a shrub, and between a palace and a cottage.
2. Opposition, or difference of position, attitude, &c., of figures, or of their several members; as in painting and sculpture.
3. Opposition of things or qualities; or the placing of opposite things in view, to exhibit the superior excellence of one to more advantage.  What a contrast between modesty and impudence, or between a well-bred man and a clown!


Topic: Contrasting
Definition:
CONTRASTING, ppr. Placing in opposition, with a view to discover the difference of figures or other things, and exhibit the advantage or excellence of one beyond that of the other.


Topic: Contrate-wheel
Definition:
CONTRATE-WHEEL, n. In watch-work, the wheel next to the crown, the teeth and hoop of which lie contrary to those of the other wheels, whence its name.


Topic: Contravallation
Definition:
CONTRAVALLATION, n. [L., to fortify.] In fortification, a trench guarded with a parapet, thrown round a place by the besiegers, to secure themselves, and check the sallies of the garrison.


Topic: Contravene
Definition:
CONTRAVENE, v.t. [L., to come.] Literally, to come against; to meet.  Hence, to oppose, but used in a figurative or moral sense; to oppose in principle or effect; to contradict; to obstruct in operation; to defeat; as, a law may contravene the provisions of the constitution.


Topic: Contravention
Definition:
CONTRAVENTION, n. Opposition; obstruction; a defeating of the operation or effect.
The proceedings of the allies were in direct contravention of the treaty.


Topic: Contrayerva
Definition:
CONTRAYERVA, n. [L., an antidote for poison, or in general, an antidote.] The genus of plants, Dorstenia; all low herbaceous plants, natives of the warm climates of America, and useful as diaphoretics.


Topic: Contributary
Definition:
CONTRIBUTARY, a. [See Contribute.] Paying tribute to the same sovereign; contributing aid to the same chief or principal.
It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream.


Topic: Contribute
Definition:
CONTRIBUTE, v.t. [L., to grant, assign, or impart. See Tribe, Tribute.]
1. To give or grant in common with others; to give a common stock or for a common purpose; to pay a share.
England contributes much more than any other of the allies.
It is the duty of Christians to contribute a portion of their substance for the propagation of the gospel.
2. To impart a portion or share to a common purpose.
Let each man contribute his influence to correct public morals.
CONTRIBUTE, v.i. To give a part; to lend a portion of power, aid or influence; to have a share in any act or effect.
There is not a single beauty in the piece, to which the invention must not contribute.


Topic: Contribution
Definition:
CONTRIBUTION, n. 
1. The act of giving to a common stock, or in common with others; the act of lending a portion of power or influence to a common purpose; the payment of each mans share of some common expense.
2. That which is given to a common stock or purpose, either by an individual or by many.  We speak of the contribution of one person, or the contribution of a society.  Contributions are involuntary, as taxes and imposts; or voluntary, as for some undertaking.
3. In a military sense, impositions paid by a frontier country, to secure themselves from being plundered by the enemys army; or impositions upon a country in the power of an enemy, which are levied under various pretenses, and for various purposes, usually for the support of the army.


Topic: Contributive
Definition:
CONTRIBUTIVE, a. Tending to contribute; contributing; having the power or quality of giving a portion of aid or influence; lending aid to promote, in concurrence with others.
This measure is contributive to the same end.


Topic: Contributor
Definition:
CONTRIBUTOR, n. One who contributes; one who gives or pays money to a common stock or fund; one who gives aid to a common purpose in conjunction with others.


Topic: Contributory
Definition:
CONTRIBUTORY, a. Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock.


Topic: Contrite
Definition:
CONTRITE, a. [L., to break or bruise; to rub or wear. See Trite.] Literally, worn or bruised. Hence, broken-hearted for sin; deeply affected with grief and sorrow for having offended God; humble; penitent; as a contrite sinner.
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm 51.


Topic: Contrition
Definition:
CONTRITION, n. [L.]
1. The act of grinding or rubbing to powder.
2. Penitence; deep sorrow for sin; grief of heart for having offended and infinitely holy and benevolent God.  The word is usually understood to mean genuine penitence, accompanied with a deep sense of ingratitude in the sinner, and sincere resolution to live in obedience to the divine law.
Fruits of more pleasing savor, from thy seed sown with contrition in his heart.
Imperfect repentance is by some divines called attrition.


Topic: Contrivable
Definition:
CONTRIVABLE, a. [See Contrive.] That may be contrived; capable of being planned, invented, or devised.
Perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable.


Topic: Contrivance
Definition:
CONTRIVANCE, n. [See Contrive.] 
1. The act of inventing, devising or planning. 
There is no work impossible to these contrivances.
2. The thing invented or planned; a scheme; plan; disposition of parts or causes by design.
Our bodies are made according to the most orderly contrivance.
3. Artifice; plot; scheme.
He has managed his contrivance well.


Topic: Contrive
Definition:
CONTRIVE, v.t. 
1. To invent; to devise; to plan.
Our poet has always some beautiful design, which he first establishes, and then contrives the means which will naturally conduct him to his end.
2. To wear out. 
[This must be from the L. Contero, contrivi, and if the French controuver, and Italian controvare, are the same word differently applied, the primary sense is, to invent by rubbing, that is, by ruminating; or to strike out, as in forge.  But the word is probably from trouver, to find.]
CONTRIVE, v.i. To form or design; to plan; to scheme.
How shall we contrive to hide our shame? [This verb is really transitive, but followed by a verb, in the place of an object or name.]


Topic: Controll
Definition:
CONTROL, CONTROLL, n. 
1. Primarily, a book, register or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter-register.  Hence, check; restraint; as, to speak, or to act without control.  The wind raged without control.  Our passions should be under the control or reason.
2. Power; authority; government; command.  Children should be under the control of their parents.  The events of life are not always under our control.
3. He or that which restrains.
CONTROL, CONTROLL, v.t. 
1. To keep under check by a counter-register or double account.  The proper officer controls the accounts of the treasury.
2. To check; to restrain; to govern.
I feel my virtue struggling in my soul; But stronger passion does its power control.
3. To overpower; to subject to authority; to counteract; to have under command.  The course of events cannot be controlled by human wisdom or power.
4. To direct or govern in opposition; to have superior force, or authority over.
A recital cannot control the plain words in the granting part of a deed.


Topic: Controllable
Definition:
CONTROLLABLE, a. That may be controlled, checked or restrained; subject to command.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind, and not always controllable by reason.


Topic: Controller
Definition:
CONTROLLER, n. 
1. One who controls, or restrains; one that has the power or authority to govern or control.
The great controller of our fate deignd to be man, and lived in low estate.
2. An officer appointed to keep a counter-register of accounts, or to oversee, control or verify the accounts of other officers; as in Great Britain, the controller of the hanaper, of the household, of the pipe, and of the pells.  In the United States, the duty of the controller of the treasury is to superintend the adjustment and preservation of the public accounts; to examine all accounts settled by the auditor, and certify to the register the balances due thereon; to countersign all warrants drawn by the secretary of the treasury which shall be warranted by law; to report to he secretary the official forms of all papers to be issued in the different offices for collecting the public revenue, and the manner and form of keeping and stating the accounts of the persons employed in them, &c.


Topic: Controlment
Definition:
CONTROLMENT, CONTROLLMENT, n. 
1. The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint.
2. Opposition; resistance; counteraction; refutation.
For this word, control is now generally used.


Topic: Controversial
Definition:
CONTROVERSIAL, a. [See Controvert, Controversy.] Relating to disputes; as a controversial discourse.


Topic: Controversy
Definition:
CONTROVERSY, n. [L. See Controvert.]
1. Dispute; debate; agitation of contrary opinions.  A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing.  Dispute is often or generally a debate of short duration, a temporary debate; a controversy is often oral and sometimes continued in books or in law for months or years.
This left no room for controversy, about the title.
Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. 1 Timothy 3.
2. A suit in law; a case in which opposing parties contend for their respective claims before a tribunal.
And by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried. Deuteronomy 21.
3. Dispute; opposition carried on.
The Lord hath a controversy with the nations. Jeremiah 25. 
4. Opposition; resistance.
And stemming [the torrent] with hearts of controversy.


Topic: Controvert
Definition:
CONTROVERT, v.t. [L., to turn. Literally, to turn against.] To dispute; to oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to deny and attempt to disprove or confute; to agitate contrary opinions; as, to controvert opinions, or principles; to controvert the justness of a conclusion.


Topic: Controvertible
Definition:
CONTROVERTIBLE, a. That may be disputed; disputable; not too evident to exclude difference of opinion; as, this is a controvertible point of law.


Topic: Controvertist
Definition:
CONTROVERTIST, n. One who controverts; a disputant; a man versed or engaged in controversy, or disputation.
How unfriendly is the spirit of the controvertist to the discernment of the critic.


Topic: Contumacious
Definition:
CONTUMACIOUS, a. [L., to swell.]
1. Literally, swelling against; haughty.  Hence, obstinate; perverse; stubborn; inflexible; unyielding; disobedient; as a contumacious child.
2. In law, wilfully disobedient to the orders of a court.


Topic: Contumacy
Definition:
CONTUMACY, n. [L.]
1. Stubbornness; unyielding obstinacy; inflexibility.
2. In law, a wilful contempt and disobedience to any lawful summons or order of court; a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned, or disobedience to its rules and orders.


Topic: Contumelious
Definition:
CONTUMELIOUS, a. [L. See Contumely.]
1. Haughtily reproachful; contemptuous; insolent; rude and sarcastic; as contumelious language.
2. Haughty and contemptuous; disposed to utter reproach, or to insult; insolent; proudly rude; as a contumelious person.
3. Reproachful; shameful; ignominious.


Topic: Contumeliously
Definition:
CONTUMELIOUSLY, adv. In a contumelious manner; with pride and contempt; reproachfully; rudely; insolently.


Topic: Contumely
Definition:
CONTUMELY, n. [L., to swell.] Rudeness or reproach compounded of haughtiness and contempt; contemptuousness; insolence; contemptuous language.
The oppressors wrong; the proud mans contumely.


Topic: Contuse
Definition:
CONTUSE, v.t. [L.] To beat; to bruise; to injure the flesh or substance of a living being or other thing without breaking the skin or substance, sometimes with a breach of the skin or substance.


Topic: Contusion
Definition:
CONTUSION, n. [L., to beat.]
1. The act of beating and bruising, or the state of being bruised.
2. The act of reducing to powder or fine particles by beating.
3. In surgery, a bruise; a hurt or injury to the flesh or some part of the body by a blunt instrument, or by a fall.


Topic: Convalescence
Definition:
CONVALESCENCE, CONVALESCENCY, n. [L., to grow stronger; to get strength, to be strong.  See Well and Avail.] Renewal of health; the insensible recovery of health and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness.


Topic: Convene
Definition:
CONVENE, v.i. [L., to come.]
1. To come together; to meet; to unite; as things.
The rays of light converge and convene in the eyes.
2. To come together; to meet in the same place; to assemble; as persons.  Parliament will convene in November.  The two houses of the legislature convened at twelve oclock.  The citizens convened in the state house.
CONVENE, v.t.
1. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. The President has power to convene the Congress, on special occasions.
2. To summon judicially to meet or appear.
By the papal canon law, clerks can be convened only before ecclesiastical judge.


Topic: Convenience
Definition:
CONVENIENCE, CONVENIENCY, n. [L.] Literally, a coming together; a meeting.  Hence,
1. Fitness; suitableness; propriety; adaptation of one thing to another, or to circumstances.
2. Commodiousness; ease; freedom from difficulty.
Every man must want something for the convenience of his life.
There is another convenience in this method.
3. That which gives ease; accommodation; that which is suited to wants or necessity  A pair of spectacles is a great convenience in old age.
4. Fitness of time or place.


Topic: Convenient
Definition:
CONVENIENT, a. Fit; suitable; proper; adapted to use or to wants; commodious; followed by to or for; usually by for.
 Some arts are peculiarly convenient to particular nations.
Feed me with food convenient for me. Proverbs 30.


Topic: Conveniently
Definition:
CONVENIENTLY, adv. 
1. Fitly; suitably; with adaptation to the end or effect. That house is not conveniently situated for a tradesman.
2. Commodiously; with ease; without trouble or difficulty.  He cannot conveniently accept the invitation.


Topic: Convening
Definition:
CONVENING, ppr. Coming together; calling together.
CONVENING, n. The act of coming together; convention.


Topic: Convent
Definition:
CONVENT, n. [L., to assemble.]
1. An assembly of persons devoted to religion; a body of monks or nuns.
2. A house for persons devoted to religion; an abbey; a monastery; a nunnery.
CONVENT, v.t. [L.] To call before a judge or judicature.
CONVENT, v.i. To meet; to concur. [Not used.]


Topic: Conventicle
Definition:
CONVENTICLE, n. [L.]
1. An assembly or meeting; usually applied to a meeting of dissenters from the established church, for religious worship. In this sense it is used by English writers and in English statutes.  Hence, an assembly, in contempt.  In the United States, this word has no appropriate application, and is little used, or not at all.
2. A secret assembly or cabal; a meeting for plots.


Topic: Convention
Definition:
CONVENTION, n. [L. See Convene.]
1. The act of coming together; a meeting of several persons or individuals.
2. Union; coalition.
3. An assembly. In this sense, the word includes any formal meeting or collection of men for civil or ecclesiastical purposes; particularly an assembly of delegates or representatives for consultation on important concerns, civil, political or ecclesiastical.  In Great Britain, convention is the name given to an extraordinary assembly of the estates of the realm, held without the kings writ; as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.  In the United States, this name is given to the assembly of representatives which forms a constitution of government, or political association; as the convention which formed the constitution of the United States in 1787.
4. An agreement or contract between two parties, as between the commanders of two armies; an agreement previous to a definitive treaty.


Topic: Conventional
Definition:
CONVENTIONAL, a. Stipulated; formed by agreement.
Conventional services reserved by tenures on grants, made out of the crown or knights  service.


Topic: Conventionary
Definition:
CONVENTIONARY, a. Acting under contract; settled by stipulation; conventional; as conventionary tenants.


Topic: Conventual
Definition:
CONVENTUAL, a. Belonging to a convent; monastic; as conventual priors.
CONVENTUAL, n. One that lives in a convent; a monk or nun.


Topic: Converge
Definition:
CONVERGE, v.i. [L., to incline. See Verge.] To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together, as two lines which continually approach each other; opposed to diverge.  Lines which converge in one direction, diverge in the other.
The mountains converge into a single ridge. 


Topic: Converging
Definition:
CONVERGING, ppr. Tending to one point; approaching each other, as lines extended.
Converging rays, in optics, those rays of light, which proceeding from different points of an object, approach, meet and cross, and become diverging rays.
Converging series, in mathematics, is that in which the magnitude of the several terms gradually diminishes.


Topic: Conversable
Definition:
CONVERSABLE, a. [See Converse.] Qualified for conversation, or rather disposed to converse; ready or inclined to mutual communication of thoughts; sociable; free in discourse.


Topic: Conversableness
Definition:
CONVERSABLENESS, n.  The quality of being free in conversation; disposition or readiness to converse; sociability.


Topic: Conversant
Definition:
CONVERSANT, a. [See Converse.]
1. Keeping company; having frequent or customary intercourse; intimately associating; familiar by fellowship or cohabitation; acquainted.
But the men were very good to us--as long as we were conversant with them. 1 Samuel 25. 
Never to be infected with delight, nor conversant with ease and idleness.
2. Acquainted by familiar use or study.  We correct our style, and improve our taste, by being conversant with the best classical writers.  In the foregoing applications, this word is most generally followed by with, according to present usage.  In was formerly used; and both in and among may be used.
3. Concerning; having concern, or relation to; having for its object; followed by about.
Education is conversant about children.


Topic: Conversation
Definition:
CONVERSATION, n. 
1. General course of manners; behavior; deportment; especially as it respects morals.
Let your conversation be as becometh the gospel. Philippians 1. 
Be ye holy in all manner of conversation. 1 Peter 1. 
2. A keeping company; familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; commerce in social life.  Knowledge of men and manners is best acquired by conversation with the best company.
3. Intimate and familiar acquaintance; as a conversation with books, or other object.
4. Familiar discourse; general intercourse of sentiments; chat; unrestrained talk; opposed to a formal conference.
What I mentioned in conversation was not a new thought.
[This is now the most general use of the word.]


Topic: Conversative
Definition:
CONVERSATIVE, a. Relating to an intercourse with men; opposed to contemplative.
She chose to endue him with conversative qualities of youth.


Topic: Converse
Definition:
CONVERSE, v.i. [L., to be turned. Literally, to be turned to or with; to be turned about.]
1. To keep company; to associate; to cohabit; to hold intercourse and be intimately acquainted; followed by with.
For him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and their converse with nature.
2. To have sexual commerce.
3. To talk familiarly; to have free intercourse in mutual communication of thoughts and opinions; to convey thoughts reciprocally; followed by with before the person addressed, and on before the subject.  Converse as friend with friend.  We have often conversed with each other on the merit of Miltons poetry. [This is now the most general use of the word.]
CONVERSE, n. 
1. Conversation; familiar discourse or talk; free interchange of thoughts or opinions.
Formed by thy converse happily to steer from grave to gay, from lively to severe.
2. Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse; cohabitation; familiarity.  In this sense, the word may include discourse, or not; as, to hold converse with persons of different sects; or to hold converse with terrestrial things.
3. In mathematics, an opposite proposition; thus, after drawing a conclusion from something supposed, we invert the order, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, and draw from it what was first supposed.  Thus, if two sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal: and the converse is true; if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.


Topic: Conversion
Definition:
CONVERSION, n. [L. See Convert.]
1. In a general sense, a turning or change from one state to another; with regard to substances, transmutation; as a conversion of water into ice, or of food into chyle or blood.
2. In military affairs, a change of front, as when a body of troops is attacked in the flank, and they change their position to face the enemy.
3. In a theological or moral sense, a change of heart, or dispositions, in which the enmity of the heart to God and his law and the obstinacy of the will are subdued, and are succeeded by supreme love to God and his moral government, and a reformation of life.
4. Change from one side or party to another.
That conversion will be suspected that apparently concurs with interest.
5. A change from one religion to another; as the conversion of the Gentiles. Acts 15.
6. The act of appropriating to private use; as in trover and conversion.
Conversion of equations, in algebra, the reduction of equations by multiplication, or the manner of altering an equation, when the quantity sought or any member of it is a fraction; the reducing of a fractional equation into an integral one.
Conversion of propositions, in logic, is a changing of the subject into the place of the predicate, and still retaining the quality of the proposition.
Conversion of the ratios, in arithmetic, is the comparing of the antecedent with the difference of the antecedent and consequent, in two equal ratios or proportions.


Topic: Convert
Definition:
CONVERT, v.t. [L., to turn; coinciding in elements and signification with barter.]
1. To change or turn into another substance or form; as, to convert gases into water, or water into ice.
2. To change from one state to another; as, to convert a barren waste into a fruitful field; to convert a wilderness into a garden; to convert rude savages into civilized men.
3. To change or turn from one religion to another, or from one party or sect to another; as, to convert pagans to Christianity; to convert royalists into republicans.
4. To turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character, from enmity to God and from vicious habits, to love of God and to a holy life.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts 3.
He that converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death. James 5. 
5. To turn toward a point.
Crystal will callify into electricity, and convert the needle freely placed. [Unusual.]
6. To turn from one use or destination to another; as, to convert liberty into an engine of oppression.
7. To appropriate or apply to ones own use, or to personal benefit; as, to convert public property to our own use.
8. To change one proposition into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second; as, all sin is a transgression of the law; but every transgression of the law is sin.
9. To turn into another language.
CONVERT, v.i. To turn or be changed; to undergo a change.
The love of wicked friends converts to fear; that fear, to hate.
CONVERT, n. 
1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who renounces one creed, religious system or party, and embraces another; applied particularly to those who change their religious opinions, but applicable to political and philosophical sects.
2. In a more strict sense, one who is turned from sin to holiness.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. Isaiah 1.
3. In monasteries, a lay-friar or brother, admitted to the service of the house, without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.


Topic: Converted
Definition:
CONVERTED, pp. Turned or changed from one substance or state to another; turned form one religion or sect to another; changed from a state of sin to a state of holiness; applied to a particular use; appropriated.


Topic: Convertibility
Definition:
CONVERTIBILITY, n. [from convertible.]
1. The quality of being possible to be converted or changed from one substance, form or state to another; as the convertibility of land into money.
2. The quality of being changeable from one letter to another; as the convertibility of m with b or of d into t.


Topic: Convertible
Definition:
CONVERTIBLE, a. 
1. That may be changed; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.
Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus.
2. So much alike that one may be used for another. Usury and interest are not now convertible terms, though formerly they were.
3. That may be changed, as one letter for another; as b, p and f are convertible letters.


Topic: Convex
Definition:
CONVEX, a. [L.] Rising or swelling on the exterior surface into a spherical or round form; gibbous; opposed to concave, which expresses a round form of the interior surface; as a convex mirror or lens.
CONVEX, n. A convex body; as heavens convex.


Topic: Convexo-concave
Definition:
CONVEXO-CONCAVE, a. Convex on one side and concave on the other; having the hollow on the inside corresponding to the convex surface.


Topic: Convey
Definition:
CONVEY, v.t. [L., to carry; to weigh. See Weigh and Way.]
1. To carry , bear or transport, either by land or water, or in air; as, to convey a letter or a package; to convey goods from England to France.
2. To pass or cause to pass; to transmit; as, to convey a right or an estate from father to son.
3. To transfer; to pass a title to any thing from one person to another, as by deed, assignment or otherwise; as, to convey lands by bargain and sale.
4. To cause to pass; to transmit; to carry, by any medium; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
5. To manage; to carry on. [Not used.]
I will convey the business as I shall find means.
6. To impart; to communicate.


Topic: Conveyance
Definition:
CONVEYANCE, n. 
1. The act of conveying; the act of bearing, carrying, or transporting, by land or water, or through any medium.
2. The act of transmitting, or transferring, as titles, estates or claims from one person to another; transmission; transference; assignment.
3. The instrument or means of passing a thing from place to place, or person to person; as, a vehicle is a conveyance for persons or goods; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water; a deed is a conveyance of land.
4. Removal; the act of removing or carrying.
5. Management; artifice; secret practices. [In this sense, obsolete.]


Topic: Conveyancing
Definition:
CONVEYANCING, n. The act or practice of drawing deeds, leases or other writings for transferring the title to property from one person to another.


Topic: Conveyer
Definition:
CONVEYER, n. 
1. One who conveys; he or that which conveys, carries, transports, transmits or transfers from one person or place to another.
2. A juggler.


Topic: Convict
Definition:
CONVICT, v.t. [L., to vanquish or subdue. See Convince.]
1. To determine the truth of a charge against one; to prove or find guilty of a crime charged; to determine or decide to be guilty, as by the verdict of a jury, by confession, or other legal decision.  The jury convicted the prisoner of felony.
2. To convince of sin; to prove or determine to be guilty, as by the conscience.
They who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John 8. 
3. To confute; to prove or show to be false.
4. To show by proof or evidence.
CONVICT, pp. For convicted. Proved or found guilty.
CONVICT, n. A person proved or found guilty of a crime alledged against him, either by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision.


Topic: Convicted
Definition:
CONVICTED, ppr. Proved or determined to be guilty, either by verdict of a jury or by the decision of conscience.


Topic: Conviction
Definition:
CONVICTION, n. 
1. The act of proving, finding or determining to be guilty of an offense charged against a person before a legal tribunal; as by confession, by the verdict of a jury, or by the sentence of other tribunal, as in the summary convictions before commissioners of the revenue.
2. The act of convincing, or compelling one to admit the truth of a charge; the act of convincing of sin or sinfulness; the sate of being convinced or convicted by conscience; the state of being sensible of guilt; as, the convictions of a sinner may be temporary, or lasting and efficacious.  By conviction, a sinner is brought to repentance.  Men often sin against the conviction of their own consciences.
3. The act of convincing of error; confutation; the act of compelling one to acknowledge his error, or the truth of what is alledged; as, the conviction of a heretic may induce him to abandon his errors.


Topic: Convince
Definition:
CONVINCE, v.t. [L., to vanquish.]
1. To persuade or satisfy the mind by evidence; to subdue the opposition of the mind to truth, or to what is alledged, and compel it to yield its assent; as, to convince a man of his errors; or to convince him of the truth.
For he mightily convinced the Jews--showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. Acts 18. 
2. To convict; to prove guilty; to constrain one to admit or acknowledge himself to be guilty.
If ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of [by] the law as transgressors. James 2.
To convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds. Jude 15.
3. To envince; to prove.
4. To overpower; to surmount; to vanquish.


Topic: Convincing
Definition:
CONVINCING, ppr. 
1. Persuading the mind by evidence; convicting.
2. a. Persuading the mind by evidence; capable of subduing the opposition of the mind and compelling its assent.  We have convincing proof of the truth of the scriptures, and of Gods moral government of the world.


Topic: Convincingly
Definition:
CONVINCINGLY, adv. In a convincing manner; in a manner to leave no room to doubt, or to compel assent.


Topic: Convivial
Definition:
CONVIVIAL, a. [L., a guest, to live or eat and drink together. See Victuals.] Relating to a feast or entertainment; festal; social; jovial; as a convivial meeting.


Topic: Conviviality
Definition:
CONVIVIALITY, n. 
1. The good humor or mirth indulged at an entertainment.
2. A convivial spirit or disposition.


Topic: Convocate
Definition:
CONVOCATE, v.t. [L., to convoke; to call. See Voice.] To convoke; to call or summon to meet; to assemble by summons. [See Convoke.]


Topic: Convocation
Definition:
CONVOCATION, n. [L.]
1. The act of calling or assembling by summons.
2. An assembly.
In the first day there shall be a holy convocation. Exodus 12.
3. In England, an assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.  It is held during the session of parliament, and consists of an upper and lower house.  In the upper house sit the archbishops and bishops; in the lower house sit the inferior clergy, represented by their proctors, consisting of all the deans and arch-deacons, of one proctor for every chapter, and two for the clergy of every diocese, in all one hundred and forty-three divines, vix. Twenty-two deans, fifty-three arch-deacons, twenty-four prebendaries, and forty-four proctors of the diocesan clergy.
4. An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.


Topic: Convoke
Definition:
CONVOKE, v.t. [L. See Voice.] To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.
It is the prerogative of the President of the United States to convoke the senate.


Topic: Convolute
Definition:
CONVOLUTE, CONVOLUTED, a. Rolled together, or one part on another; as the sides or margins of nascent leaves in plants, or as the petals and stigmas in Crocus.


Topic: Convolution
Definition:
CONVOLUTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of rolling or winding together, or one thing on another; the state of being rolled together.
2. A winding or twisting; a winding motion; as the convolution of certain vines; the convolution of an eddy.


Topic: Convoy
Definition:
CONVOY, v.t. [L., to carry, to bear or carry, to bring along.] To accompany on the way for protection, either by sea or land; as, ships of war convoyed the Jamaica fleet; the troops convoyed the baggage wagons.  When persons are to be protected, the word escort is used.
CONVOY, n. 
1.  A protecting force accompanying ships or property on their way from place to place, either by sea or land.  By sea, a ship or ships of war which accompany merchantmen for protection from an enemy.  By land, any body of troops which accompany provisions, ammunition or other property for protection.
2. The ship or fleet conducted and protected; that which is conducted by a protecting force; that which is convoyed.  The word sometimes includes both the protecting and protected fleets.
3. The act of attending for defense.
4. Conveyance.


Topic: Convulse
Definition:
CONVULSE, v.t. [L., to pull or pluck.]
1. To draw or contract, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to affect by regular spasms; as, the whole frame may be convulsed in agony.
2. To shake; to affect by violent irregular action.
Convulsing heaven and earth.


Topic: Convulsion
Definition:
CONVULSION, n. [L.]
1. A preternatural, violent and involuntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.
2. Any violent and irregular motion; tumult; commotion; as political convulsions.


Topic: Convulsive
Definition:
CONVULSIVE, a. 
1. That produces convulsion; as convulsive rage; convulsive sorrow.
2. Attended with convulsion or spasms; as convulsive motions; convulsive strife.


Topic: Cony
Definition:
CONY, CONEY, n. [L. The primary sense is a shoot, or a shooting along.] A rabbit; a quadruped of the genus Lepus, which has a short tail and naked ears.  In a wild state the fur is brown, but the color of the domestic rabbit is various.


Topic: Cook
Definition:
COOK, v.t. [L.]
1. To prepare, as victuals for the table, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, &c. To dress, as meat or vegetables, for eating.
2. To prepare for any purpose.
3. To throw. [Obs. or local.]
COOK, v.i. To make the noise of the cuckoo.
COOK, n. [L.] One whose occupation is to prepare victuals for the table; a man or woman who dresses meat or vegetables for eating.


Topic: Cookroom
Definition:
COOKROOM, n. [cook and room.] A room for cookery; a kitchen. On board of ships, a galley or caboose.


Topic: Cool
Definition:
COOL, a. [G., cold, to cool; chilliness; to blow strong.]
1. Moderately cold; being of a temperature between hot and cold; as cool air; cool water.
2. Not ardent or zealous; not angry; not fond; not excited by passion of any kind; indifferent; as a cool friend; a cool temper; a cool lover.
3. Not retaining heat; light; as a cool dress.
COOL, n. A moderate state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; as the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
COOL, v.t. 
1. To allay heat; to make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of a substance; as, ice wools water.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke 16. 
2. To moderate excitement of temper; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm, as anger; to abate, as love; to moderate, as desire, zeal or ardor; to render indifferent.
COOL, v.i.
1. To become less hot; to lose heat.  Let tea or coffee cool to the temperature of the blood, before it is drank.
2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become less ardent, angry, zealous, or affectionate; to become more moderate.  Speak not in a passion; first let your temper cool.


Topic: Cooler
Definition:
COOLER, n. 
1. That which cools; any substance which abates heat or excitement; as, acids are coolers to the body.
2. A vessel in which liquors or other things are cooled.


Topic: Coolly
Definition:
COOLLY, adv. 
1. Without heat or sharp cold.
2. In a cool or indifferent manner; not cordially; without passion or ardor.  He was coolly received at court.
3. Without haste; calmly; deliberately.  The design was formed coolly, and executed with firmness.


Topic: Coolness
Definition:
COOLNESS, n. 
1. A moderate degree of cold; a temperature between cold and heat; as the coolness of the summers evening.
2. A moderate degree, or a want of passion; want of ardor, or zeal; indifference; want of affection; as, they parted with coolness.


Topic: Coom
Definition:
 COOM, n. Soot that gathers over an ovens mouth; also, the matter that works out of the naves or boxes of carriage wheels.  In Scotland, the useless dust which falls from coals.


Topic: Coop
Definition:
COOP, n. [L, from bending, hollowness, or containing, holding. See Cup.]
1. A box of boards, grated or barred on one side, for keeping fowls in confinement.  It is usually applied to long boxes for keeping poultry for fattening or conveyance on board of ships, as cage is used for a small box to keep singing birds in houses. I do not know that it is ever used in America for a pen to confine other animals.
2. A pen; an inclosed place for small animals.
3. A barrel or cask for the preservation of liquors.
4. A tumbrel or close cart.
[The three last sense, not American.]
COOP, v.t. To put in a coop; to confine in a coop.  Hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; usually followed by up, to coop up; sometimes by in.
The Trojans cooped within their walls.
They are cooped in close by the laws of the country.


Topic: Cooper
Definition:
COOPER, n. [G.] One whose occupation is to make barrels, hogsheads, butts, tubs and casks of various kinds.


Topic: Coot
Definition:
COOT, n.  A fowl of the genus Fulica, frequenting lakes and other still waters.  The common coot has a bald forehead, a black body, and lobated toes, and is about fifteen inches in length.  It makes its nest among rushes, with grass and reeds, floating on the water.


Topic: Cop
Definition:
COP, n. [G.] The had or top of a thing, as in cob-castle for cop-castle, a castle on a hill; a tuft on the head of birds.  This word is little used in America, unless cob, the spike of maize, may be the same word.


Topic: Copaiba
Definition:
COPAIBA, n. Balsam of copaiba or capivi, is a liquid resinous juice, flowing from incisions made in the stem of a tree called Copaifera officinalis, growing in Spanish America, in the province of Antiochia.  This juice is clear, transparent, of a whitish or pale yellowish color, an agreeable smell, and a bitterish pungent taste.  It is of the consistence of oil, or a little thicker.  As a medicine, it is corroborating and detergent.


Topic: Copal
Definition:
COPAL, n. The concrete juice of a tree growing in Mexico or New Spain, hard, shining, transparent, citron-colored, and odoriferous.  It is not strictly a gum nor a resin, as it has not the solubility in water common to gums, nor that in spirit of wine common to resins.  In these respects it rather resembles amber.  It may be dissolved by digestion in lintseed oil, with a heat little less than sufficient to boil or decompose the oil.  This solution, diluted with spirit of turpentine, forms a beautiful transparent varnish.


Topic: Coparcenary
Definition:
COPARCENARY, n. [See Coparcener.] Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession or joint succession to an estate of inheritance.


Topic: Coparcener
Definition:
COPARCENER, n. [con and parcener, L., to divide.] A coheir; one who has an equal portion of the inheritance of his or her ancestor with others.
All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them.
Coparceners take by descent; joint-tenants, by purchase.


Topic: Copartner
Definition:
COPARTNER, n. [con and partner. See Coparcener.]
1. One who has a share in a common stock for transacting business, or who is jointly concerned with one or more persons, in carrying on trade or other business; a partner; an associate, particularly in trade or manufactures.
2. A sharer; a partaker; as, copartners of our loss.


Topic: Copartnership
Definition:
COPARTNERSHIP, n. 
1. Joint concern in business; a state of having joint share in a common stock, or a joint interest and concern in business, particularly in trade and manufactures.
2. The persons who have a joint concern.


Topic: Cope
Definition:
COPE, n. 
1. A cover for the head.
2. A sacerdotal ornament or vestment worn in sacred ministrations.  An ornament worn by chanters and subchanters, when they officiate in solemnity.  It reaches from the shoulders to the feet.
3. Any thing spread or extended over the head; the arch or concave of the sky; the roof or covering of a house; the arch over a door, &c.
4. An ancient tribute due to the king or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in some part of Derbyshire.
COPE, v.t. 
1. To cover as with a cope.
2. To pare the beak or talons of a hawk.
3. To embrace.
COPE, v.i. 
1. To strive or contend on equal terms, or with equal strength; to equal in combat; to match; to oppose with success.
The Generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.
Till Luther rose, no power could cope with the pope.
He was too open and direct in his conduct, and possessed too little management-to cope with so cool and skillful an adversary.
2. To contend; to strive or struggle; to combat.
Host copd with host, dire was the din of war.
3. To encounter; to interchange kindness or sentiments.
4. To make return; to reward.
5. To exchange, or barter. [Not in use.]


Topic: Copernican
Definition:
COPERNICAN, a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth, who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.


Topic: Copier
Definition:
COPIER, COPYIST, n. One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original or form; a transcriber; an imitator; also, a plagiary.


Topic: Coping
Definition:
COPING, n. [See cope, n.] The top or cover of a wall, made sloping to carry off the water. 1 Kings 7:9. A coping over, is a projecting work beveling on its under side.


Topic: Copious
Definition:
COPIOUS, a. 
1. Abundant; plentiful; in great quantities; full; ample; furnishing full supplies.
The tender heart is peace, and kindly pours its copious treasures forth in various converse.
2. Furnishing abundant matter; not barren; rich in supplies.
The redemption of man is a copious subject of contemplation.
Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! Thy name shall be the copious matter of my song.


Topic: Copiousness
Definition:
COPIOUSNESS, n. 
1. Abundance; plenty; great quantity; full supply.
2. Diffusiveness of style or manner of treating a subject; as the copiousness of Homer.


Topic: Copper
Definition:
COPPER, n. [L., G., supposed to be so called from Cyprus, an isle in the Mediterranean.  This opinion is probable, as the Greeks called it Cyprian brass, brass of Cyprus.  In this case copper was originally an adjective.]  A metal, of a pale red color, tinged with yellow. Next to gold, silver and platina, it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals, and it is more elastic than any metal, except steel, and the most sonorous of all the metals.  It is found native in lamins or fibers, in a gangue almost always quartzous; it is also found crystalized, and in grains or superficial lamins on stones or iron.  It is not altered by water, but is tarnished by exposure to the air, and is at last covered with a green carbonated oxyd.  Copper in sheets is much used for covering the bottoms of ships, for boilers and other utensils; mixed with tin and zink, it is used in enamel-painting, dyeing, &c. : mixed with tin, it forms bell-metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zink, it forms brass, pinchbeck, &c. When taken into the body ti operates as a violent emetic, and all its preparations are violent poisons.
COPPER, a. Consisting of copper.
COPPER,n. 
1. A vessel made of copper, particularly a large boiler.
2 Formerly, a small copper coin.
My friend filled my pocket with coppers.
COPPER, v.t. To cover or sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.


Topic: Copper-plate
Definition:
COPPER-PLATE, n. A plate of copper on which concave lines are engraved or corroded, according to some delineated figure or design.  This plate, when charged with any colored fluid, imparts an impression of the figure or design to paper or parchment.


Topic: Copper-worm
Definition:
COPPER-WORM, n. A little worm in ships; a worm that frets garments; a worm that breeds in ones hand.


Topic: Copperas
Definition:
COPPERAS, n. Sulphate of iron, or green vitriol; a salt of a peculiar astringent taste, and of various colors, green, gray, yellowish, or whitish, but more usually green.  It is much used in dyeing black and in making ink, and in medicine, as a tonic.  The copperas of commerce is usually made by the decomposition of iron pyrites.  The term copperas was formerly synonymous with vitriol, and included the green, blue and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper and zink.


Topic: Coppice
Definition:
COPPICE, COPSE, n. A wood of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel.
The rate of coppice lands will fall on the discovery of coal-mines.


Topic: Coppiously
Definition:
COPPIOUSLY, adv. 
1. Abundantly; plentifully; in large quantities.
2. Largely; fully; amply; diffusely.
The remains of antiquity have been copiously described by travelers.


Topic: Copple-stones
Definition:
COPPLE-STONES, n. Lumps and fragments of stone broke from the adjacent cliffs, rounded by being bowled and tumbled to and again by the action of water.  In New England, we pronounce this word cobble, cobble-stones, and if the word is a diminutive of cob, cop, a head, or cub, a heap, we follow the Welsh cob, as the English do the same word, cop, in the Saxon dialect.  We apply the word to small round stones, from the size of an inch or two, to five or six inches or more, in diameter, wherever they may be found.


Topic: Coptic
Definition:
COPTIC, a. Pertaining to the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, called Copts, or cophti, as distinct from the Arabians and other inhabitants of modern Egypt.  The name is supposed to be taken from Coptos, the metropolis of the Thebaid; as Egypt, is probably from that name; inclosed, fortified.  To inclose, to bind, to fortify.  Whatever may be the origin of Copt, the adjective Coptic now refers to the people called Copts, who are Christians, and to their language.
COPTIC, n. The language of the Copts. 


Topic: Copula
Definition:
COPULA, n. [L. See Copulation and Couple.] In logic, the word which unties the subject and predicate of a proposition.  Religion is indispensable to happiness.  Here is is the copula joining religion, the subject, with indispensable to happiness, the predicate.


Topic: Copulate
Definition:
COPULATE, a. Joined. [Little used.]
COPULATE, v.t. [L.] To unite; to join in pairs. [Little used.]
COPULATE, v.i. To unite in sexual embrace; applied to animals in general.


Topic: Copulation
Definition:
COPULATION, n. [L.] The act of coupling; the embrace of the sexes in the act of generation; coition.


Topic: Copulative
Definition:
COPULATIVE, a. That unites or couples.  In grammar, the copulative conjunction connects two or more subjects or predicates, in an affirmative or negative proposition; as, riches and honors are temptations to pride; the Romans conquered Spain and gaul and Britain; neither wealth nor honors will purchase immortal happiness.
COPULATIVE, n. 
1. A copulative conjunction.
2. Connection. [Not in use.]


Topic: Copy
Definition:
COPY, n. [See Cope and Cuff.] Literally, a likeness, or resemblance of any kind.  Hence,
1. A writing like another writing; a transcript from an original; or a book printed according to the original; hence, any single book , or set of books, containing a composition resembling the original work; as the copy of a deed, or of a bond; a copy of Addisons works; a copy of the laws; a copy of the scriptures.
2. The form of a picture or statue according to the original; the imitation or likeness of any figure, draught, or almost any object.
3. An original work; the autograph; the archetype.  Hence, that which is to be imitated in writing or printing.  Let the child write according to the copy.  The copy is in the hands of the printer. Hence, a pattern or example for imitation.  His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
4. Abundance. [L.]
COPY, v.t. 
1. To write, print or engrave, according to an original; to form a like work or composition by writing, printing or engraving; to transcribe; often followed by out, but the use is not elegant.
The men of Hezekiah copied certain proverbs of Solomon.
2. To paint or draw according to an original.
3. To form according to a model, as in architecture.
4. To imitate or attempt to resemble; to follow an original or pattern, in manners or course of life. Copy the Savior in his humility and obedience.
COPY, v.i. To imitate or endeavor to be like; to do any thing in imitation of something else. A painter copies from the life.  An obedient child copies after his parent.
They never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good.


Topic: Copyhold
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COPYHOLD, n. In England, a tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant hath nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lords court.


Topic: Copyright
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COPYRIGHT, n. The sole right which an author has in his own original literary compositions; the exclusive right of an author to print, publish and vend his own literary works, for his own benefit; the like right in the hands of an assignee.


Topic: Coquet
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COQUET, COQUETTE, n. A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt.
The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, and sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Note. In French, coquet is masculine and coquette feminine; but as our language has no such termination for gender, it may be better to write coquet for both sexes, and for distinction prefix male to the word when applied to a man.


Topic: Coquetry
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COQUETRY, n. Attempts to attract admiration, notice or love, from vanity; affectation of amorous advances; trifling in love.


Topic: Coral
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CORAL, n. [L. Gr.] 
1. In zoology, a genus belonging to the order of vermes zoophyta.  The trunk is radicated, jointed and calcarious.  The species are distinguished by the form of their branches, and are found in the ocean adhering to stones, bones, shells, &c. Coral was formerly supposed to be a vegetable substance, but is now known to be composed of a congeries of animals.  Coral is red, white and black.  It is properly the shells of marine animals of the polype kind, consisting of calcarious earth combined with gelatine and other animal matter.  In the South Sea, the isles are mostly coral rocks covered with earth. Corals seem to consist of carbonate of lime and animal matter, in equal proportions.
2. A piece of coral worn by children about their necks.
CORAL, a. Made of coral; resembling coral.


Topic: Coral-tree
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CORAL-TREE, n. A genus of plants, Erythrina, of several species, natives of Africa and America.  They are all shrubby flowering plants, adorned chiefly with trifoliate or three-lobed leaves, and scarlet spikes of papilionaceous flowers.


Topic: Coralline
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CORALLINE, a. Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral.
CORALLINE, n. A submarine plant-like body, consisting of many slender, jointed branches, resembling some species of moss; or animals growing in the form of plants, having their stems fixed to other bodies.  These stems are composed of capillary tubes, which pass through a calcarious crust and open on the surface.  In the Linnean system, corallines are classed with the zoophytes.  They have been distributed by Ellis into vesiculated, furnished with small bodies like bladders; tubular, composed of simple tubes; celliferous, which, when magnified, appear to be fine thin cells, the habitations of small animals; and articulated, consisting of short pieces of stony or cretaceous brittle matter, covered with pores or cells, joined by a tough, membranous, flexible substance, composed of many small tubes.  Butin this arrangement of Ellis, the term coralline is synonymous with the more ancient term lithophyta, including all the polypebearing animals, and nearly coinciding with the zoophyta of Linne, and the polypiers of the French naturalists.


Topic: Corallite
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CORALLITE, n. A mineral substance or petrifaction , in the form of coral; or a fossil polypier, larger than a corallinite.


Topic: Corban
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CORBAN, n. [L. G., a wicker basket.]
1. In Jewish antiquity, an offering which had life; an animal offered to God; in opposition to the mincha, which was an offering without life.
It is a gift, corban, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; that is, I have devoted that to God which you ask of me, and it is no longer mine to give.
2. An alms-basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a gift; an alms; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.
3. Among Mohammedans, a ceremony performed at the foot of mount Arrarat in Arabia, near Mecca.  It consists in killing the number of sheep, and distributing them among the poor.


Topic: Corbeil
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CORBEIL, n. In fortification, a little basket, to be filled with earth, and set upon a parapet, to shelter men from the fire of besiegers.


Topic: Corbel
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CORBEL, n. [See the preceding words.]
1. In architecture, the representation of a basket, sometimes set on the heads of caryatides.
2. The vase or tambour of the Corinthian column; so called from its resemblance to a basket.


Topic: Corcelet
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CORCELET, CORSELET, n. In natural history, that part of winged insects, which answers to the breast of other animals.


Topic: Corcle
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CORCULE, CORCLE, n. [L. It is a diminutive, from cor, the heart.] In botany, the heart of the seed, or rudiment of a future plant, attached to and involved in the cotyledons.  It consists of the plume or ascending part, and the rostel, or radicel, the simple descending part.


Topic: Cord
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CORD, n. [L. Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
1. A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.  Rahab let down the spies by a cord through the window. Joshua 2.
2. A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line.  The cord is a pile containing 128 cubic feet; or a pile eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad.
3. In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalm 129.
The cords of sin are bad habits, or the consequences of sin. Proverbs 5.
The cords of a man are the fair, gentle or natural means of alluring men to obedience. Hosea 11.
The cords of vanity are worldly vanities and pleasures, profit or preferment; or vain and deceitful arguments and pretenses, which draw men to sin. Isaiah 5.
To stretch a line or cord about a city, is to level it, or utterly to destroy it. Lamentations. 2.
The cords of a tent denote stability.  To loosen or break the cords, is to weaken or destroy; to lengthen the cords, is to enlarge. Job 30. Isaiah 54. Jeremiah 10. 

CORD, v.t. 
1. To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
2. To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord.


Topic: Cordage
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CORDAGE, n. All sorts of cords or ropes, used in the running rigging of a ship, or kept in reserve to supply the place of that which may be rendered unserviceable. In a more general sense, the word includes all ropes and lines used on board of ships.


Topic: Cordate
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CORDATE, CORDATED, a. [L., with a different signification, from cor, the heart.] Having the form of a heart; heart-shaped; a term used by naturalists; as a cordate leaf in botany, resembling the longitudinal section of the heart.  Hence, cordate-oblong, heart-shaped lengthened; cordate-lanceolate, heart-shaped, gradually tapering towards each extremity, like the head of a lance; cordate-sagittate, heart-shaped, but resembling the head of an arrow.


Topic: Corded
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CORDED, pp. 
1. Bound or fastened with cords.
2. Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
3. Made of cords; furnished with cords.
4. In heraldry, a cross corded is one wound with cords, or made of two pieces of wood.


Topic: Cordelier
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CORDELIER, n.  A Franciscan friar; one of the order of religious founded by St. Francis; a gray friar.  The cordeliers wear a thick gray cloth, a little cowl, a chaperon, and a cloke, with a girdle of  rope or cord, tied with three knots.


Topic: Cordial
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CORDIAL, a. [L., the heart.]
1. Proceeding from the heart; hearty; sincere; not hypocritical; warm; affectionate.
With looks of cordial love. 
We give our friends a cordial reception.
2. Reviving the spirits; cheering; invigorating; giving strength or spirits; as cordial waters.
CORDIAL, n. 
1. In medicine, that which suddenly excites the system, and increases the action of the heart or circulation when languid; any medicine which increases strength, raises the spirits, and gives life and cheerfulness to a person when weak and depressed.
2. Any thing that comforts, gladdens and exhilarates; as, good news is a cordial to the mind.


Topic: Cordiality
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CORDIALITY, n. 
1. Relation to the heart. [Not used.]
2. Sincerity; freedom from hypocrisy; sincere affection and kindness.
Our friends were received with cordiality.


Topic: Cordially
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CORDIALLY, adv. Heartily; sincerely; without hypocrisy; with real affection.
The Christian cordially receives the doctrines of grace.


Topic: Cordon
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CORDON, n. [See Cord.]
1. In fortification, a row of stones jutting before the rampart, and the basis of the parapet; or a row of stones between the wall of a fortress which lies aslope, and the parapet which is perpendicular; serving as an ornament, and used only in fortifications of stone-work.
2. In military language, a line or series of military posts; as a cordon of troops.


Topic: Cordwainer
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CORDWAINER, n. [from cordwain.] A shoemaker.  This word was formerly written cordiners.  It is evidently from the French cordouan, cordouannier; properly, a worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather.


Topic: Cordwood
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CORDWOOD, n. Wood cut and piled for sale by the cord, in distinction from long wood; properly, wood cut to the length of four feet; bu in this respect, the practice is not uniform. In Scotland, cord-wood is wood conveyed to market on board of vessels, in opposition to that which is floated.


Topic: Core
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CORE, n. [L., the heart. Gr. See Class Gr.]
1. The heart or inner part of a thing; particularly, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as the core of an apple or quince.  It was formerly applied to place; as, in the core of a square.
2. The inner part of an ulcer or boil.
3. A body. [Not used.]
4. A disorder of sheep, occasioned by worms in the liver.


Topic: Coriaceous
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CORIACEOUS, a. [L., leather.]
1. Consisting of leather, or resembling leather; tough; as coriaceous concretions.
2. In botany, stiff, like leather or parchment; applied to a leaf, a calyx or capsule.


Topic: Coriander
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CORIANDER, n. [L., Gr.] A genus of plants of two species.  The seeds of one species, the sativum, have a strong smell, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.


Topic: Corinthian
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CORINTHIAN, a. Pertaining to Corinth, a celebrated city of Greece; as Corinthian column; Corinthian order; Corinthian brass. The Corinthian order, in architecture, is the most delicate of all the orders, and enriched with a profusion of ornaments.  The capital is usually adorned with olive leaves or acanthus.


Topic: Cork
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CORK, n. [G., L., bark, rind, shell, crust.]
1. A glandiferous tree, a species of Quercus, growing in Spain and Portugal, having a thick, rough, fungous, cleft bark.
2. The outer bark of the tree, or epidermis, of which stopples for bottles and casks are made.  This outer bark is taken off, and a new epidermis is formed, which, in six or seven years, becomes fit for use.  This bark is also burnt to make a kind of light black, called Spanish black.
3. A stopple for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
CORK, v.t. To stop bottles or casks with corks; to confine or make fast with a cork.


Topic: Cormorant
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CORMORANT, n. [Cormorant is supposed to be corrupted from corvus marinus, sea raven.  The Welsh also call the fowl morvran, sea crow.]
1. The water raven, a large fowl of the pelican kind; the head and neck are black; the coverts of the wings, the scapulars and the back are of a deep green, edged with black and glossed with blue.  The base of the lower mandible is covered with a naked yellow skin, which extends under the chin and forms a sort of pouch.  This fowl occupies the cliffs by the sea, feeds on fish, and is extremely voracious.
2. A glutton.


Topic: Corn
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CORN, n. [G., L. See Grain.]
1. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley and maiz; a grain.  In this sense, it has a plural; as, three barley corns make an inch.  It is generally applied to edible seeds, which, when ripe, are hard.
2. The seeds of certain plants in general, in bulk or quantity; as, corn is dear or scarce.  In this sense, the word comprehends all the kinds of grain which constitute the food of men and horses.  In Great Britain, corn is generally applied to wheat, rye, oats and barley.  In the United States, it has the same general sense, but by custom, it is appropriated to maiz.  We are accustomed to say, the crop of wheat is good, but the corn is bad; it is a good year for wheat and rye, but bad for corn.  In this sense, corn has no plural.
3. The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.  We say, a field of corn, a sheaf or a shock of corn, a load of corn.  The plants or stalks are included in the terms corn, until the seed is separated from the ears.
4. In surgery, a hard excrescence, or induration of the skin, on the toes or some part of the feet, occasioned by the pressure of the shoes; so called from its hardness and resemblance to a corn.
5. A small hard particle. [See Grain.]
CORN, v.t. 
1. To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; as, to corn beef.
2. To granulate; to form into small grains.


Topic: Corn-chandler
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CORN-CHANDLER, n. [Chandler, a dealer in candles, is supposed to be from the French chandelier; but what has this word to do with corn and ship, in corn-chandler and ship-chandler? In these words, chandler seems to be a corruption of the Teutonic handler, a trader.] A dealer in corn.


Topic: Corn-crake
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CORN-CRAKE, n. The crake or land rail; the corn-crow, for kraka, in Sw., and krage, in Dan., is our word crow, and the name is probably taken from its cry.  The Dutch kraai, a crow, is contracted from kraag, and kraaijen is to crow, to vaunt, to tell tales.


Topic: Cornage
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CORNAGE, n. [L., a horn.] An ancient tenure of lands, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.


Topic: Cornblade
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CORNBLADE, n. The leaf of the maiz.  Cornblades are collected and preserved as fodder, in some of the southern states of America.


Topic: Cornea
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CORNEA, n. [L., a horn.] The transparent membrane in the fore-part of the eye, through which the rays of light pass; situated in the sclerotica, and considered by some as a portion of it.


Topic: Cornel
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CORNEL, CORNEL-TREE, CORNELIAN-TREE, n. [L., a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. The mascula, or cornelian cherry tree, has a stem of twenty feet high, branching and forming a large head, garnished with oblong leaves and small umbels of yellowish-green flowers, succeeded by small, red, acid, eatable, cherry-like fruit. [See Carnelian.]


Topic: Corneous
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CORNEOUS, a. [L., a horn. See Horn.] Horny; like horn; consisting of a horny substance, or substance resembling horn; hard.


Topic: Corner
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CORNER, n. [See Horn and Grain.]
1. The point where two converging lines meet; properly, the external point; an angle; as, we meet at the corner of the state-house, or at the corner of two streets.
2. The interior point where two lines meet; an angle.
3. The space between two converging lines or walls which meet in a point. Hence, 
4. An inclosed place; a secret or retired place.
This thing was not done in a corner. Acts 26.
5. Indefinitely any part; a part.  They searched every corner of the forest.  They explored all corners of the country.
6. The end, extremity or limit; as the corners of the head or beard.  Leviticus 21 and 19.
Corner-teeth of a horse, the foreteeth between the middling teeth and the tushes, two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old.


Topic: Corner-stone
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CORNER-STONE, n. The stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone, and especially the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice.
Who laid the corner-stone thereof?  Job 38.
Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. Ephesians 2.


Topic: Cornet
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CORNET, n. [L., a horn. See Horn.]
1. An instrument of music, in the nature of a trumpet, sounded by blowing with the mouth.  It was of a winding shape like a horn; used in armies and on occasions of joy.
David played before the Lord on cornets. 2 Samuel 6.
2. In modern usage, an officer of cavalry, who bears the ensign or colors of a troop.  He is the third officer in the company.
3. A company of cavalry; a troop of horse. [Not used.]
4. The cornet of a horse [coronet[ is the lowest part of his pastern, that runs round the coffin and is distinguished by the hair that joins and covers the upper part of the hoof.
5. A little cap of paper in which retailers inclose small wares.
6. A scarf anciently worn by doctors.
7. A head dress.


Topic: Corneter
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CORNETTER, CORNETER, CORNICE, n. One who blows a cornet.
1. In architecture, the uppermost member of the entablature of a column, or the highest projecture; that which crowns and order.
2. A little projecture in joinery or masonry; as the cornice of a chimney.
Cornice-ring of a cannon, is the ring next from the muzzle-ring backward.


Topic: Corniculate
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CORNICULATE, a. [from L., a horn.]
1. Horned; having horns.
2. In botany, producing horned pods; bearing a little spur or horn.


Topic: Cornucopia
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CORNUCOPIA, n. [L., a horn, and plenty.]
1. The horn of plenty, an emblem of abundance of fruits.
2. In architecture and sculpture, the figure of a horn, from which fruits and flowers are represented as proceeding.


Topic: Corny
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CORNY, a. [L., a horn.] Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.
CORNY, a. [from corn.] Producing corn; containing corn.


Topic: Corody
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CORODY, CORRODY, n. An allowance of meat, drink or clothing, due to the king from an abbey or other religious house, for the sustenance of such one of his servants, as he thinks good to bestow on it.  An allowance for the maintenance of any of the kings servants living in an abbey.
Corodies are a right of sustenance, or to receive certain allotments of victuals and provision for ones maintenance.  In lieu of which, a pension or sum of money is sometimes substituted.
The king is entitled to a corody out of every bishopric, that is, to send one of his chaplains to be maintained by the bishop, or to have a pension allowed, till the bishop promotes him to a benefice. [This has fallen into disuse.] According to the Italian, the latter word is the correct orthography.


Topic: Corol
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COROL, COROLLA, n. [L., a little crown.] In botany, the inner covering of a flower. The corol surrounds the parts of fructification, and is composed of one or more flower leaves, called petals.  It is distinguished from the perianth, by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors; but there are many exceptions.  It is sometimes inaccurately called blossom and flower.


Topic: Corollaceous
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COROLLACEOUS, a. Pertaining to a corol; inclosing and protecting like a wreath.
A corrollaceous covering.


Topic: Corollary
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COROLLARY, n. [L., coronet, a crown. 
1. A conclusion or consequence drawn from premises, or from what is advanced or demonstrated.  If it is demonstrated that a triangle which has equal sides, has also equal angles, it follows as a corollary that a triangle which has three equal sides, has its three angles equal.
A corollary is an inference from a preceding proposition.
2. A surplus.


Topic: Corollet
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COROLLET, COROLLULE, n. One of the partial flowers which make a compound one; the floret in an aggregate flower.


Topic: Corona
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CORONA, n. [L., A crown.]
1. In architecture, a large flat member of a cornice, crowning the entablature, and the whole order; called by workmen the drip.
2. In anatomy, the upper surface of the molar teeth or grinders.
3. In botany, the circumference or margin of a radiated compound flower.  Also, the appendage to the top of seeds, which enables them to disperse.
4. In optics, a halo or luminous circle around the sun, moon or stars.


Topic: Coronal
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CORONAL, a. Belonging to the crown or top of the head; as the coronal suture.
CORONAL, n. 
1. A crown; wreath; garland.
2. The first suture of the skull.


Topic: Coronary
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CORONARY, a. Relating to a crown; seated on the top of the head; or placed as a crown.
 Coronary vessels, in anatomy, certain vessels which furnish the substance of the heart with blood.
Coronary arteries, two arteries which spring from the aorta, before it leaves the pericardium, and supply the substance of the heart with blood.
Coronary vein, a vein diffused over the exterior surface of the heart, receiving the blood from the heart.
Stomachic coronary, a vein inserted into the trunk of the splenic vein, which, by uniting with the mesenteric, forms the vena porta.


Topic: Coronation
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CORONATION, n. [a crown.]
1. The act or solemnity of crowning a king or emperor; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.
2. The pomp or assembly attending a coronation.
Coronation-oath, the oath taken by a king at his coronation.


Topic: Coroner
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CORONER, n. [Law Lat., a crown.] An officer whose office is concerned principally with pleas of the crown.  One chief part of his duty is, when a person is slain or dies suddenly or in prison, to inquire into the manner of his death.  This must be done by a jury, on sight of the body, and at the place where the death happened.  In England, the coroner is to inquire also concerning shipwrecks, and certify whether wrecks or not, and who is in possession of the goods; also concerning treasure-trove.  As a ministerial officer, the coroner is the sheriffs substitute; and when an exception can be taken to the sheriff, for suspicion of partiality, process is awarded to the coroner.
In some of the States, in America, there is a coroner, but his principal or only duty is to inquire into the causes of untimely death.  In Connecticut there is no such officer, the duty being performed by a constable or justice of the peace.


Topic: Coronet
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CORONET, n. [from corona, a crown.] 
1. An inferior crown worn by noblemen. The coronet of a duke is adorned with strawberry leaves; that of a marquis has leaves with pearls interposed; that of an earl raises the pearls above the leaves; that of a viscount is surrounded with pearls only; that of a baron has only four pearls.
2. In poetical language, an ornamental head dress.
Coronet of a horse. [See Cornet.]


Topic: Coronoid
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CORONOID, a. [Gr., a crow, and form.]  Noting the upper and anterior process of the end of the lower jaw, called the coronoid process.


Topic: Corporal
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CORPORAL, n. [L., head.]
1. The lowest officer of a company of infantry, next below a sergeant.  He has charge over one of the divisions, places and relieves sentinels, &c.
2. The corporal of a ship of war, is an officer under the master at arms, employed to teach the sailors the use of small arms; to attend at the gangways or entering ports, and see that no spirituous liquors are brought, except by permission; to extinguish fire and candles, &c.
CORPORAL, a. [L., body.]
1. Belonging or relating to the body; as corporal pain, opposed to mental.
2. Material; not spiritual. [See Corporeal.]


Topic: Corporale
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CORPORAL, CORPORALE, n. A fine linen cloth, used to cover the sacred elements in the eucharist or in which the sacrament is put.
Corporal oath, a solemn oath, so called from the ancient usage of touching the corporale, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.


Topic: Corporality
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CORPORALITY, n. The state of being a body or embodied; opposed to spirituality.
If this light hath any corporality, it is most subtile and pure.


Topic: Corporalship
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CORPORALSHIP, n. [from corporal.] A corporals command in a Russian company, or a division of twenty-three men.
Each squadron consists of two companies, and each of these, of three corporalships or sixty nine men who come in the front.


Topic: Corporate
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CORPORATE, a. [L., to be shaped into a body, body.]
1. United in a body, or community, as a number of individuals, who are empowered to transact business as an individual; formed into a body; as a corporate assembly, or society; a corporate town.
2. United; general; collectively one.
They answer in a corporate voice.


Topic: Corporation
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CORPORATION, n. A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.  Corporations are aggregate or sole.  Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either forever, or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture.  Such corporations are the mayor and aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college, the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, &c. A corporation sole consists of one person only and his successors, as a king or a bishop.


Topic: Corporeal
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CORPOREAL, CORPOREOUS, a. Having a body; consisting of a material body; material; opposed to spiritual or immaterial; as our corporeal frame; corporeal substance.


Topic: Corporeity
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CORPOREITY, n. The state of having a body, or of being embodied; materiality.
The one attributed corporeity to God.


Topic: Corposant
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CORPOSANT, n. A name given by seamen to a luminous appearance often beheld, in dark tempestuous nights, about the decks and rigging of a ship, but particularly at the mastheads and yard-arms, supposed to be electrical.


Topic: Corps
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CORPS, n. [L., body. It is pronounced kore, and is an ill word in English.
1. In military language, a body of troops; any division of an army; as a corps de reserve.
2. A body, in contempt, as used by Milton and Dryden, but probably pronounced in the English manner, as corpse.
3. A carcase; a dead body. [See Corpse.]
4. In architecture, any part that projects beyond a wall, serving as the ground of some decoration.


Topic: Corpulence
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CORPULENCE, CORPULENCY, n. [L., body.]
1. Fleshiness; excessive fatness; a state of being loaded with flesh; as the body of a human being.
2. Spissitude; grossness of matter; as corpulence of water. [Little used.]


Topic: Corpulent
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CORPULENT, a. Fleshy; having a great or excessive quantity of fat or flesh, in proportion to the frame of the body; as a corpulent child.
Corpus Christi. [Body of Christ.] A festival of the church of England, kept on the next Thursday after Trinity-Sunday, in honor of the Eucharist.


Topic: Corpuscle
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CORPUSCLE, n. [L., body.] A minute particle, or physical atom; corpuscles are the very small bodies which compose large bodies, not the elementary principles of matter, but such small particles simple or compound, as are not dissolved or dissipated by ordinary heat.
It will add much to our satisfaction, if those corpuscles can be discovered by microscopes.


Topic: Corpuscular
Definition:
CORPUSCULAR, a. Relating to corpuscles, or small particles, supposed to be the constituent materials of all large bodies.  The corpuscular philosophy attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, &c., of the minute particles of matter.


Topic: Corpuscularian
Definition:
CORPUSCULARIAN, a. Corpuscular, as above.
CORPUSCULARIAN, n. An advocate for the corpuscular philosophy.


Topic: Correct
Definition:
CORRECT, a. [L., to set right; right, straight. See Right.] Literally, set right, or made straight.  Hence, right; conformable to truth, rectitude or propriety, or conformable to a just standard; not faulty; free from error. A correct edition of a book is exactly according to the original copy. Correct manners correspond with the rules of morality and received notions of decorum. Correct principles coincide with the truth. Correct language is agreeable to established usage.
CORRECT, v.t. [L. See Right.]
1. To make right; to rectify; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; as, to correct manners or principles. Hence, 
2. To amend; to remove or retrench faults or errors; to set right; as, to correct a book; to correct a copy for the press; or in printing, to correct the press, or errors of the press.
3. To bring back or attempt to bring back to propriety in morals; to punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest. Proverbs 29.
4. To obviate or remove whatever is wrong or inconvenient; to reduce or change the qualities of any thing by mixture, or other application; to counteract whatever is injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations; to correct the relaxing quality of water by boiling it with animal substances.


Topic: Correction
Definition:
CORRECTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety; as the correction of opinions or manners.
All scripture is profitable for correction. 2 Timothy 3.
2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as the correction of a book, or of the press.
3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.
4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects.
Withhold not correction from the child. Proverbs 23.
5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions.
They have refused to receive correction. Jeremiah 5.
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. Proverbs 3.
6. Critical notice; animadversion.
7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as the correction of acidity in the stomach.
House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.


Topic: Corrective
Definition:
CORRECTIVE, a. Having the power to correct; having the quality of removing or obviating what is wrong, or injurious; tending to rectify; as corrective penalties.
Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of bilious alkali.
CORRECTIVE, n. 
1. That which has the power of correcting; that which has the quality of altering or obviating what is wrong, or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.
2. Limitation; restriction. [Little used.]


Topic: Correctly
Definition:
CORRECTLY, adv. In a correct manner; in conformity with truth, justice, rectitude, or propriety; according to a standard; agreeable to a copy or original; exactly; accurately; without fault, or error; as, to behave correctly; to write, speak or think correctly; to judge correctly.


Topic: Correctness
Definition:
CORRECTNESS, n. 
1. Conformity to truth, justice, or propriety; as the correctness of opinions, of judgment, or of manners.
2. Conformity to settled usages or rules; as correctness in writing or speaking.
3. Conformity to a copy or original; as the correctness of a book.
4. Conformity to established rules of taste or proportion; as the correctness of design in painting, sculpture or architecture.


Topic: Corrector
Definition:
CORRECTOR, n. 
1. One who corrects; one who amends faults, retrenches error, and renders conformable to truth or propriety, or to any standard; as a corrector of the press; a corrector of abuses.
2. One who punishes for correction; one who amends or reforms by chastisement, reproof or instruction.
3. That which corrects; that which abates or removes what is noxious or inconvenient; an ingredient in a composition which abates or counteracts the force of another; as, an alkali is a corrector of acids.
Turpentine is a corrector of quicksilver.


Topic: Correlate
Definition:
CORRELATE, n. [L. Con and relatus. See Relate.] One who stands in an opposite relation, as father and son.


Topic: Correlative
Definition:
CORRELATIVE, a. [L. Con and relativus. See Relate and Relative.] Having a reciprocal relation, so that the existence of one in a certain state depends on the existence of another; as father and son, husband and wife, are correlative terms.  The term son is correlative to that of father.
CORRELATIVE, n. That which is opposed to something else in a certain relation.  The son is the correlative of his father.  Darkness and light are correlatives. Rest is the correlative of motion.


Topic: Correspond
Definition:
CORRESPOND, v.i. [L., to answer, to promise. See Sponsor.]
1. To suit; to answer; to agree; to fit; to be congruous; to be adapted to.  Levity of manners does not correspond with the dignity of the clerical character. The length of a room should correspond with the breadth.  Actions should correspond with words.
2. To be equal; to be adequate or proportioned.  Let the means of prosecuting a war correspond with the magnitude of the contest.
3. To communicate by letters sent and received; to hold intercourse with a person at a distance by sending and receiving letters. We delight to correspond with those we love and respect.


Topic: Correspondency
Definition:
CORRESPONDENCE, CORRESPONDENCY, n. 
1. Relation; fitness; congruity; mutual adaptation of one thing to another.  There is no correspondence between a polite education and clownish manners.
2. Intercourse between persons at a distance, by means of letters sent and answers received.  The ministers of the two courts have had a correspondence on the subject of commerce. Hence, 
3. The letters which pass between correspondents.  The correspondence of the ministers is published.
4. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of offices or civilities; connection.
Let military persons hold good correspondence with the other great men in the state.


Topic: Correspondent
Definition:
CORRESPONDENT, a. Suitable; fit; congruous; agreeable; answerable; adapted.  Let behavior be correspondent to profession, and both be correspondent to good morals.
CORRESPONDENT, n. One who corresponds; one with whom an intercourse is carried on by letters or messages.  When A is the correspondent of B, B is the correspondent of A.


Topic: Corridor
Definition:
CORRIDOR, n.  The termination dor may perhaps be the L. Tor, as in curator, cursitor. Corridor signifies a runner; hence, a running, flowing, or long line.]
1. In architecture, a gallery or long aisle round a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other.
2. In fortification, the covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.


Topic: Corrigible
Definition:
CORRIGIBLE, a. [L., to correct.]
1. That may be set right, or amended; as a corrigible defect.
2. That may be reformed; as, the young man may be corrigible.
3. Punishable; that may be chastised for correction. He was adjudged corrigible for abusive words.


Topic: Corroborant
Definition:
CORROBORANT, a. [See Corroborate.] Strengthening; having the power or quality of giving strength; as a corroborant medicine.
CORROBORANT, n. A medicine that strengthens the human body when weak.


Topic: Corroborate
Definition:
CORROBORATE, v.t. [L., to strengthen, strength.]
1. To strengthen; to make strong, or to give additional strength to; as, to corroborate the nerves; to corroborate the judgment, authority or habits.
2. To confirm; to make more certain.  The news was doubtful, but is corroborated by recent advices.


Topic: Corroboration
Definition:
CORROBORATION, n. The act of strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength, assurance, or security; confirmation; as the corroboration of an argument, or of intelligence.


Topic: Corrode
Definition:
CORRODE, v.t. [L., to eat or gnaw.]
1. To eat away by degrees; to wear away, or diminish, by gradually separating small particles from a body, in the manner an animal gnaws a substance. Thus, nitric acid corrodes copper.
2. To wear away by degrees; to prey upon; to impair; to consume, or diminish by slow degrees. Jealousy and envy corrode the constitution.  Substances are corroded by time. The anxious man is a victim to corroding care.


Topic: Corrodent
Definition:
CORRODENT, a. Having the power of corroding, or wasting by degrees.
CORRODENT, n. Any substance or medicine that corrodes.


Topic: Corrosion
Definition:
CORROSION, n. s as z. From corrode. The action of eating or wearing away by slow degrees, as by the action of acids on metals, by which the substance is gradually changed. This is effected by the affinity of the menstruum with the component parts of the substance, in consequence of which the two substances unite and form new combinations.


Topic: Corrosive
Definition:
CORROSIVE, a. 
1. Eating; wearing away; having the power of gradually wearing, consuming or impairing; as corrosive sublimate; corrosive care; a corrosive ulcer.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
Corrosive sublimate, the corrosive muriate or perchloride of mercury.
CORROSIVE, n. 
1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing gradually.
2. That which has the power of fretting.


Topic: Corrugate
Definition:
CORRUGATE, v.t. [L., to wrinkle, in our vulgar language, to ruck, to furrow.] To wrinkle; to draw or contract into folds; as, to corrugate the skin.
CORRUGATE, a. Wrinkled.


Topic: Corrupt
Definition:
CORRUPT, v.t. [L., to break.] Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence, 
1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell.
2. To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Corinthians 15.
3. To waste, spoil or consume.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matthew 6. 
4. To defile or pollute. Exodus 32.
5. To entice from good and allure to evil. 2 Corinthians 11.
6. To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. Malachi 2.
7. To pervert or vitiate integrity; to bribe; as, to corrupt a judge.
8. To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language.
9. To pervert; to falsify; to infect with errors; as, to corrupt the sacred text.
CORRUPT, v.i.
1. To become putrid; to putrefy; to rot. Animal and vegetable substances speedily corrupt in a warm and moist air.
2. To become vitiated; to lose purity.
CORRUPT, a. [L.]
1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition.
2. Spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound; as corrupt air, or bread.
3. Depraved; vitiated; tainted with wickedness.
They are corrupt; they have done abominable works. Psalm 14.
The earth was corrupt before God. Genesis 6.
4. Debased; rendered impure; changed to a worse state; as corrupt language.
5. Not genuine; infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt.


Topic: Corrupter
Definition:
CORRUPTER, n. 
1. One who corrupts; one who vitiates, or taints; as a corrupter of morals, or of Christianity.
2. One who bribes; that which depraves or destroys integrity.
3. One who introduces errors.


Topic: Corruptible
Definition:
CORRUPTIBLE, a. 
1. That may be corrupted; that may become putrid; subject to decay and destruction. Our bodies are corruptible.
2. That may be vitiated in qualities or principles; susceptible of depravation. Manners are corruptible by evil example.
CORRUPTIBLE, n. That which may decay and perish; the human body.
This corruptible must put on incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15. 


Topic: Corruption
Definition:
CORRUPTION, n. [L.]
1. The act of corrupting, or state of being corrupt or putrid; the destruction of the natural form of bodies, by the separation of the component parts, or by disorganization, in the process of putrefaction.
Thou wilt not suffer thy holy One to see corruption. Psalm 16. 
2. Putrid matter; pus.
3. Putrescence; a foul state occasioned by putrefaction.
4. Depravity; wickedness; perversion or deterioration of moral principles; loss of purity or integrity.
Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1. 
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
5. Debasement; taint; or tendency to a worse state.
Keep my honor from corruption.
6. Impurity; depravation; debasement; as a corruption of language.
7. Bribery. He obtained his suit by corruption.
8. In law, taint; impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled to inherit lands from an ancestor, nor can retain those in his possession, nor transmit them by descent to his heirs.
Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of parliament.


Topic: Corruptive
Definition:
CORRUPTIVE, a. Having the quality of corrupting, tainting or vitiating.
It should be endued with some corruptive quality.


Topic: Corruptly
Definition:
CORRUPTLY, adv. 
1. In a corrupt manner; with corruption; viciously; wickedly; without integrity.
We have dealt very corruptly against thee. Nehemiah 1.
2. By bribery. A judgment was obtained corruptly.


Topic: Corruptness
Definition:
CORRUPTNESS, n. 
1. The state of being corrupt; putrid state or putrescence.
2. A state of moral impurity; as the corruptness of a judge.
3. A vicious state; debasement; impurity; as the corruptness of language.


Topic: Corsair
Definition:
CORSAIR, n. A pirate; one who cruises or scours the ocean, with an armed vessel, without a commission from any prince or state, to seize and plunder merchantmen.


Topic: Corselet
Definition:
CORSELET, n. 
1. A little cuirass, or an armor to cover the body for protection, worn formerly by pike-men.
2. [See Corcelet.]
CORSELET, v.t. To encircle with a corselet.


Topic: Corsned
Definition:
CORSNED, n.  The morsel of execration, or curse; a piece of bread consecrated by exorcism, and to be swallowed by a suspected person, as a trial of his innocence. If guilty, it was supposed the bread would produce convulsions and paleness, and find no passage. If innocent, it was believed it would turn to nourishment.


Topic: Cortes
Definition:
CORTES, n. plu. [from corte, court.] The Spanish name of the States of the kingdom, composed of nobility, clergy and representatives of cities; the assembly of the States, answering, in some measure, to the parliament of Great Britain.


Topic: Cortical
Definition:
CORTICAL, a. [from L., bark. See Chart.] Belonging to bark; consisting of bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; belonging to the external covering; as the cortical part of the brain.
A cortical bud in plants proceeds from the scales of the bark.


Topic: Corundum
Definition:
CORUNDUM,n. The corindon-harmophane of nauy, corindon adamantin of Brongniart, the korund of Werner, and the adamantine spar of Kirwan.  It is octahedral, rhomboidal or prismatic.


Topic: Coruscation
Definition:
CORUSCATION, n [L.]
1. A flash; a sudden burst of light in the clouds or atmosphere.
2. The light produced by the combustion of imflammable gas in the earth.
Artificial coruscations are produced by phosporus and sulphuric acid, or by sulphuric acid and iron filings.


Topic: Corvus
Definition:
CORVUS, n. [L., a raven.]
1. In astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, containing nine stars.
2. A military engine or gallery used by the Romans for boarding ships in war.  It was a strong platform of boards at the prow, movable as on a spindle, and thrown over the side of the enemys vessel, when grappled.


Topic: Corymb
Definition:
CORYMB, n. [L. Gr.] Primarily, a top, head or cluster. In modern botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the lesser or partial flower-stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides, and though of unequal length, rise to the same height, so as to form an even surface; as in spiraea opulifolia, scurvy-grass, &c.


Topic: Corymbiferous
Definition:
CORYMBIFEROUS, a. [L., to bear.] Producing corymbs; bearing fruit or berries in clusters, or producing flowers in clusters.


Topic: Coryphene
Definition:
CORYPHENE, n. A fish with a sloping truncated head, and the dorsal fin extending the whole length of the back.


Topic: Coscinomancy
Definition:
COSCINOMANCY, n. [Gr., a sieve, and divination.] The art or practice of divination, by suspending a sieve and taking it between two fingers, or by fixing it to the point of a pair of shears, then repeating a formula of words, and the names of persons suspected. If the sieve trembles, shakes or turns, when any name is repeated, the person is deemed guilty.  This divination is mentioned by Theocritus, and is said to be still practiced in some parts of England. The practice and the name are strangers in America.


Topic: Cosinage
Definition:
COSINAGE, n. [See Cousin.] In law, a writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered and abated, after the death of the tresail, or the grandfathers grandfather, or other collateral relation.


Topic: Cosmetic
Definition:
COSMETIC, a. s as z. [Gr., order, beauty.] Beautifying; improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the skin.
COSMETIC, n. Any preparation that renders the skin soft, pure and white, and helps to beautify and improve the complexion.


Topic: Cosmical
Definition:
COSMICAL, a. s as z. [Gr., order, the world.]
1. Relating to the world, or to the whole system of visible bodies, including the earth and stars.
2. In astronomy, rising or setting with the sun; not acronical.


Topic: Cosmically
Definition:
COSMICALLY, adv. With the sun at rising or setting; a star is said to rise or set cosmically, when it rises or sets with the sun.


Topic: Cosmogony
Definition:
COSMOGONY, n. s as z. [Gr., world, and generation.] The generation, origin or creation of the world or universe.  In physics, the science of the origin or formation of the universe.


Topic: Cosmographer
Definition:
COSMOGRAPHER, n. [See Cosmography.] one who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.


Topic: Cosmographically
Definition:
COSMOGRAPHICALLY, adv. In a manner relating to the science of describing the universe, or corresponding to cosmography.


Topic: Cosmography
Definition:
COSMOGRAPHY, n. [Gr., the world, to describe.] A description of the world or universe; or the art which teaches the construction of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition and the relation of all its parts, and the manner of representing them on a plane.


Topic: Cosmolabe
Definition:
COSMOLABE, n. s as z. [Gr., world, to take.] An ancient instrument for measuring distances in the heavens or on earth, much the same as the astrolabe, and called also pantacosm.


Topic: Cosmolatory
Definition:
COSMOLATORY, n. s as z. [Gr., world and to worship.] The worship paid to the world or its parts by heathens.


Topic: Cosmological
Definition:
COSMOLOGICAL, a. [See Cosmology.] Relating to a discourse or treatise of the world, or to the science of the universe.


Topic: Cosmology
Definition:
COSMOLOGY, n. s as z. [Gr., the universe, discourse.] The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.


Topic: Cosmopolitan
Definition:
COSMOPOLITAN, COSMOPOLITE, n. s as z. [Gr., world, a citizen.] A person who has no fixed residence; on who is no where a stranger, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.


Topic: Cost
Definition:
COST, n. [See the Verb.]
1. The price, value or equivalent of a thing purchased; the amount in value paid, charge or engaged to be paid for any thing bought or taken in barter.  The word is equally applicable to the price in money or commodities; as the cost of a suit of clothes; the cost of a house or farm.
2. Expense; amount in value expended or to be expended; charge; that which is given or to be given for another thing.
I will not offer burnt offerings without cost.  1 Chronicles 21.
Have we eaten at all at the kings cost? 2 Samuel 19.
The cost of maintaining armies is immense and often ruinous.
3. In law, the sum fixed by law or allowed by the court for charges of a suit awarded against the party losing, in favor of the party prevailing, &c. The jury find that the plaintiff recover of the defendant ten dollars with costs of suit or with his cost.
4. Loss or expense of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.  The vicious man indulges his propensities at a great cost.
5. Sumptuousness; great expense.
COST, v.t. [The noun cost coincides in most of these languages with coast and L. Costa, a rib, the exterior part.  The primary sense of the verb is, to throw or send out, to cast, as we say, to lay out.  I call this a transitive verb.  In the phrase, a hat costs six dollars, the sense is, it expends, lays out, or causes to be laid out six dollars.]
1. To require to be given or expend in barter or purchase; to be bought for; as, this book cost a dollar; the army and navy cost four millions a year.
2. To require to be laid out, given, bestowed or employed; as, Johnsons dictionary_webster1828 cost him seven years labor.
3. To require to be borne or suffered.  Our sins cost us many pains. A sense of ingratitude to his maker costs the penitent sinner many pangs and sorrows.


Topic: Costal
Definition:
COSTAL, a. [L., a side or rib. A coast or side is the extreme part, a limit, from extending, throwing or shooting out, Eng. to cast.] Pertaining to the side of the body or the ribs; as costal nerves.


Topic: Costive
Definition:
COSTIVE, a. [L, to cram, to stuff.]
1. Literally, crowded, stuffed, as the intestines; hence, bound in body; retaining fecal matter in the bowels, in a hard and dry state; having the excrements obstructed, or the motion of the bowels too slow.
2. Dry and hard; as costive clay. [Not used.]


Topic: Costiveness
Definition:
COSTIVENESS, n. A preternatural detention of the fecal matter of the bowels, with hardness and dryness; an obstruction or preternatural slowness of evacuations from the bowels.


Topic: Costliness
Definition:
COSTLINESS, n. [See Costly.] Expensiveness; great cost, or expense; sumptuousness. Revelations 18:19.


Topic: Costly
Definition:
COSTLY, a. [from cost.] Of a high price; sumptuous; expensive; purchased at a great expense; as a costly habit; costly furniture.
Mary took a pound of spikenard, very costly.  John 12.


Topic: Costume
Definition:
COSTUME, n. 
1. In painting, a rule or precept by which an artist is enjoined to make every person and thing sustain its proper character, observing the scene of action, the country or place, and making the habits, arms, manners, and proportions correspond.  Hence, the observance of this rule in execution.
2. An established mode of dress.


Topic: Cot
Definition:
COT, COTE, n. [G. In Welsh, this word signifies a cot, a hovel or stye, an abrupt termination, a rump, a tail, a skirt.  Cwta, short, abrupt, bob-tailed; cwtau, to shorten. This indicates that cot is from cutting off, and hence defending.]
1. A small house; a hut; a mean habitation; also, a shed or inclosure for beasts. 2 chronicles 32.
2. A leathern cover for a sore finger.
3. An abridgement of cotquean.
4. A cade lamb. [Local.]
5. A little boat.


Topic: Cote
Definition:
COTE, n. A sheepfold. [See Cot.]
COTE, v.t. TO pass by and turn before; to gain ground in coursing and give a competitor the turn. [Little used.]


Topic: Cotemporary
Definition:
COTEMPORARY, a. [L., time.] Living or being at the same time; as cotemporary authors. Josephus was cotemporary with Vespasian.
COTEMPORARY, a. [L., time.] One who lives at the same time with another. [I consider this word as preferable to contemporary, as being more easily pronounced.]


Topic: Cotillon
Definition:
COTILLON, n. A brisk dance, performed by eight persons together; also, a tune which regulates the dance.


Topic: Cott
Definition:
COTT, n. A small bed; on board of ships, a bed frame suspended from the beams, for the officers to sleep in, between the decks; a piece of canvas, extended by a frame.


Topic: Cottage
Definition:
COTTAGE, n. [from cot.] A cot; a hut; a small mean habitation.
The sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds. Zephaniah 2.


Topic: Cottager
Definition:
COTTAGER, n. 
1. One who lives in a hut or cottage.
2. In law, one who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.


Topic: Cotton
Definition:
COTTON, n. 
1. A soft downy substance, resembling fine wool, growing in the capsules or pods of a shrub, called the cotton-plant.  It is the material of a large proportion of cloth for apparel and furniture.
2. Cloth made of cotton.
Lavender-cotton, a genus of plants, Santolina, of several species; shrubs cultivated in gardens.  One species, the chamoecyparyssus or abrotanum foemina, female southernwood, is vulgarly called brotany.
Philosophic cotton, flowers of zink, which resemble cotton.
Silk-cotton tree, a genus of plants, the Bombax, growing to a great size in the Indies, and producing a kind of cotton in capsules.
COTTON, a. Pertaining to cotton; made of cotton; consisting of cotton; as cotton cloth; cotton stockings.
COTTON, v.i.
1. To rise with a nap.
2. To cement; to unite with; a cant word.


Topic: Cotton-gin
Definition:
COTTON-GIN, n. A machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by that celebrated mechanician, E. Whitney.


Topic: Cotton-mill
Definition:
COTTON-MILL, n. A mill or building, with machinery for carding, roving and spinning cotton, by the force of water or steam.


Topic: Cotton-plant
Definition:
COTTON-PLANT, COTTON-SHRUB, n. A plant or shrub of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates.  The principal species are, 1. The herbaceous cotton, with smooth leaves and yellow flowers, succeeded by roundish capsules, full of seeds and cotton; 2. The hairy American cotton, with hairy stalks and leaves, and yellow flowers succeeded by oval pods; 3. The Barbadoes shrubby cotton, has a shrubby stalk, yellow flowers and oval pods; 4. The arboreum or tree cotton, with a woody perennial stalk, bears yellow flowers and large pods. The first three species are annual plants; the last is perennial.
In the southern states of America, the cotton cultivated is distinguished into three kinds; the nankeen cotton, so called from its color; the green seed cotton, producing white cotton with green seeds.  These grow in the middle and upper country, and are called short staple cotton.  The black seed cotton, cultivated in the lower country near the sea, and on the isles near the shore, produces cotton of a fine, white, silky appearance, very strong and of a long staple. The seeds of the long staple cotton are separated by roller-gins.  The seeds of the short staple cotton are separated with more difficulty, by a sawgin invented by E. Whitney.


Topic: Cotton-weed
Definition:
COTTON-WEED, n. A plant, the Filago. The name is given also to the Gnaphalium, cud-weed, or goldy-locks.


Topic: Cotyledon
Definition:
COTYLEDON, n. [Gr., a hollow or cavity.]
1. In botany, the perishable lobe or placenta of the seeds of plants. It involves and nourishes the embryo plant, and then perishes.  Some seeds have two lobes; others one only, and others none.
2. In anatomy, a little glandular body adhering to the chorion of some animals.
3. A genus of plants, navel-wort, or kidney-wort, of several species.


Topic: Couch
Definition:
COUCH, v.i. 
1. To lie down, as on a bed or place of repose.
2. To lie down on the knees; to stop and recline on the knees, as a beast.
Fierce tigers couched around.
3. To lie down in secret or in ambush; to lie close and concealed.
The earl of Angus couched in a furrow.
Judah couched as a lion. Genesis 44.
4. To lie; to lie in a bed or stratum.
Blessed of the Lord be his land-for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath. Deuteronomy. 33. 
5. To stoop; to bend the body or back; to lower in reverence, or to bend under labor, pain, or a burden.
Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens. Genesis 44.
These couchings, and these lowly courtesies.
COUCH, v.t. 
1. To lay down; to repose on a bed or place of rest.
Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, doth couch his limbs.
2. To lay down; to spread on a bed or floor; as, to couch malt.
3. To lay close, or in a stratum.
The waters couch themselves, as close as may be, to the center of the globe.
4. To hide; to lay close, or in another body.
It is in use at this day, to couch vessels in walls, to gather the wind from the top, and pass it down in spouts into rooms.
5. To include secretly; to hide; or to express in obscure terms, that imply what is to be understood; with under.
All this, and more, lies couched under this allegory.
Hence, 
6. To involve; to include; to comprise; to comprehend or express.
This great argument for a future state, which St. Paul hath couched int he words read.
7. To lie close.
8. To fix a spear in the rest, in the posture of attack.
They couched their spears.
9. To depress the condensed crystaline humor or film that overspreads the pupil of the eye.  To remove a catarct, by entering a needle through the coats of the eye, and pushing the lens to the bottom of the vitreous humor, and then downwards and outwards, so as to leave it in the under and outside of the eye. The true phrase is, to couch a cataract; but we say, to couch they eye, or the patient.
COUCH, n. 
1. A bed; a place for rest or sleep.
2. A seat of repose; a place for rest and ease, on which it is common to lie down undressed.
3. A layer of stratum; as a couch of malt.
4. In painting, a lay or impression of color, in oil or water, covering the canvas, wall, or other matter to be painted.
5. Any lay, or impression, used to make a thing firm or consistent, or to screen it from the weather.
6. A covering of gold or silver leaf, laid on any substance to be gilded or silvered.


Topic: Couchant
Definition:
COUCHANT, a. [See Couch.] Lying down; squatting. In heraldry, lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; applied to a lion or other beast.
Levant and couchant, in law, rising up and lying down; applied to beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land to lie down and rise up to feed, or one night at least.


Topic: Couched
Definition:
COUCHED, pp. Laid down; laid on; hid; included or involved; laid close; fixed in the rest, as a spear; depressed or removed, as a cataract.


Topic: Coucher
Definition:
COUCHER, n. 
1. One who couches cataracts.
2. In old English statutes, a factor; a resident in a country for traffick.
3. A book in which a religious house register their acts.


Topic: Couching
Definition:
COUCHING, ppr. Lying down; laying down; lying close; involving; including; expressing; depressing a cataract.
COUCHING, n. The act of stooping or bowing.


Topic: Cough
Definition:
COUGH, n. A violent effort of the lungs to throw off offending matter; a violent, sometimes involuntary, and sonorous expiration, suddenly expelling the air through the glottis.  The convulsion of the muscles serving for exspiration gives great force to the air, while the contraction of the glottis produces the sound. The air forced violently carries along with it the phlegm or irritating matter which causes the convulsion or effort of the muscles.
COUGH, v.i. To have the lungs convulsed; to make a violent effort with noise to expel the air from the lungs, and evacuate any offending matter that irritates the parts or renders respiration difficult.
COUGH, v.t. To expel from the lungs by a convulsive effort with noise; to expectorate; followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.


Topic: Could
Definition:
COULD, pron. COOD. [The past tense of can, according to our customary arrangement in grammar; but in reality a distinct word, can having no past tense.  Could, we receive through the Celtic dialects.]
1. Had sufficient strength or physical power.  A sick man could not lift his hand. Isaac was old and could not see. Alexander could easily conquer the effeminate Asiatics.
2. Had adequate means or instruments. The men could defray their own expenses. The country was exhausted and could not support the war.
3. Had adequate moral power.  We heard the story, but could not believe it. Th intemperate man could have restrained his appetite for strong drink. He could have refrained, if we would.
My mind could not be towards this people. Jeremiah 15. 
4. Had power or capacity b the laws of its nature. The tree could not grow for want of water.
5. Had competent legal power; had right, or had the requisite qualifications. Formerly, a citizen could not vote for officers of government without the possession of some property. AB could not be elected to the office of senator, for want of estate. BC, not being the blood of the ancestor, could not inherit his estate.
6. Had sufficient capacity. The world could not contain the books. John 21.
7. Was capable or susceptible, by its nature or constitution, as of some change. He found a substance that could not be fused.
8. Had adequate strength or fortitude; as, he could not endure the pain or the reproach.
9. Had motives sufficient to overcome objections. He thought at first he could not comply with the request; but after consideration he determined to comply.
10. Had competent knowledge or skill. He could solve the most difficult problems.


Topic: Council
Definition:
COUNCIL, n. [L., to call, Gr. See Hold. This word is often confounded with counsel, with which it has no connection. Council is a collection or assembly.]
1. An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation and advice.
The chief priest and all the council sought false witness. Matthew 20. 
The kings of England were formerly assisted by a grand council or peers. 
The word is applicable to any body of men, appointed or convened for consultation and advice, in important affairs; as, a council of divines or clergymen, with their lay delegates; a council of war, consisting of the principal officers, to advise the commander in chief or admiral; a council of physicians, to consult and advise in difficult cases of disease.
2. A body of men specially designated to advise a chief magistrate in the administration of the government, as in Great Britain.
3. In some of the American states, a branch of the legislature, corresponding with the senate in other states, and called legislative council.
4. An assembly of prelates and doctors, convened for regulating matters of doctrine an discipline in the church.
5. Act of deliberation; consultation of a council.
Common-Council of a city.  In London, a court consisting of the lord mayor and aldermen in one house, and of representatives of the several wards, called common-council-men, in the other. But more generally the common-council is considered as the body of representatives of the citizens, as distinct from the mayor and aldermen.  Thus in Connecticut, the cities are incorporated by the name of the The Mayor, Aldermen, Common-Council and Freemen, of the city of Hartford, New-Haven, &c.
Ecumenical Council, in church history, a general council or assembly of prelates and doctors, representing the whole church; as the council of Nice, of Ephesus, and of Chalcedon.
Privy Council, a select council for advising a king in the administration of the government.
Aulic Council. [See Aulic.]


Topic: Council-board
Definition:
COUNCIL-BOARD, n. Council-table; the table round which a council holds consultation. Hence, the council itself in deliberation or session.


Topic: Counsel
Definition:
COUNSEL, n. [L., to consult; to ask, to assail.]
1. Advice; opinion, or instruction, given upon request or otherwise, for directing the judgment or conduct of another; opinion given upon deliberation or consultation.
Every purpose is established by counsel. Proverbs 20.
Thou hast not hearkened to my counsel. 2 Chronicles 25.
2. Consultation; interchange of opinions.
We took sweet counsel together. Psalm 55.
3. Deliberation; examination of consequences.
They all confess that, in the working of that first cause, counsel is used, reason followed, and a way observed.
4. Prudence; deliberate opinion or judgment, or the faculty or habit of judging with caution.
O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honor. Ecclus. 25.
The law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. Ezekiel 7.
5. In a bad sense, evil advice or designs; art; machination.
The counsel of the froward is carried headlong. Job 5.
6. Secresy; the secrets entrusted in consultation; secret opinions or purposes. Let a man keep his own counsel.
7. In a scriptural sense, purpose; design; will; decree.
What thy counsel determined before to be done. Acts 4.
To show the immutability of his counsel. Hebrews 6.
8. Directions of Gods word.
Thou shalt guide me by thy counsel. Psalm 73. 
9. The will of God or his truth and doctrines concerning the way of salvation.
I have not shunned to declare to you all the counsel of God. Acts 20.
10. Those who give counsel in law; any counselor or advocate, or any number of counselors, barristers or sergeants; as the plaintiffs counsel, or the defendants counsel. The attorney-general and solicitor-general are the kings counsel. In this sense, the word has no plural; but in the singular number, is applicable to one or more persons.
COUNSEL, v.t. [L.]
1. To give advice or deliberate opinion to another for the government of his conduct; to advise.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire. Revelations 3. 
2. To exhort, warn, admonish, or instruct. We ought frequently to counsel our children against the vices of the age.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped.
3. To advise or recommend; as, to counsel a crime. [Not much used.]


Topic: Counselor
Definition:
COUNSELOR, n. 
1. Any person who gives advice; but properly one who is authorized by natural relationship, or by birth, office or profession, to advise another in regard to his future conduct and measures. Ahithophel was Davids counselor. His mother was his counselor to do wickedly. 2 Chronicles 22. In Great Britain, the peers of the realm are hereditary counselor of the crown.
2. The members of a counsel; one appointed to advise a king or chief magistrate, in regard to the administration of the government.
3. One who is consulted by a client in a law case; one who gives advice in relation to a question of law; one whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients.
Privy Counselor, a member of a privy counsel.


Topic: Count
Definition:
COUNT, v.t.
1. To number; to tell or name one by one, or by small numbers, for ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life; to count the stars.
Who can count the dust of Jacob? Numbers 23.
2. To reckon; to preserve a reckoning; to compute.
Some tribes of rude nations count their years by the coming of certain birds among them at certain seasons, and leaving them at others.
3. To reckon; to place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
Abraham believed in God, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Genesis 15. 
4. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
I count them my enemies. Psalm 139.
Neither count I my life dear to myself. Acts 20. 
I count all things loss. Philippians 3.
5. To impute; to charge.
COUNT, v.i. To count on or upon, to reckon upon; to found an account or scheme on; to rely on. We cannot count on the friendship of nations. Count not on the sincerity of sycophants.
COUNT, n. 
1. Reckoning; the act of numbering; as, this is the number according to my count.
2. Number.
3. In law, a particular charge in an indictment, or narration in pleading, setting forth the cause of complaint. There may be different counts in the same declaration.
COUNT, n. [L., a companion or associate, a fellow traveler.] A title of foreign nobility, equivalent to the English earl, and whose domain is a county.  An earl; the alderman of a shire, as the Saxons called him.  The titles of English nobility, according to their rank, are Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.


Topic: Countenance
Definition:
COUNTENANCE, n. [L., to hold.]
1. Literally, the contents of a body; the outline and extent which constitutes the whole figure or external appearance. Appropriately, the human face; the whole form of the face, or system of features; visage.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. Proverbs 15.
Be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. Matthew 6.
2. Air; look; aspect; appearance of the face; as in the phrase, to change or alter the countenance.
3. The face or look of a beast; as a horse of a good countenance.
4. Favor; good will; kindness.
Thou hast made him glad with thy countenance. Psalm 21.
Hence in scriptural language, the light of Gods countenance is his smiles or favorable regards, his favor and grace; and to hide his face or countenance is to manifest his displeasure, and withdraw his gracious aids. So the rebuke of his countenance indicates his anger and frowns. Psalm 80.
This application of face or countenance, which seems to be of high antiquity, proceeded probably from the practice of turning away the face to express anger, displeasure and refusal; a practice still common, but probably universal among rude nations. The opposite conduct would of course express favor. The grant of a petition is accompanied with a look directed to the petitioner; the refusal or denial, with an averted face. Hence, 
5. Support; aid; patronage; encouragement; favor in promoting and maintaining a person or cause.
It is the province of the magistrate, to give countenance to piety and virtue.
Let religion enjoy the countenance of the laws.
Give no countenance to violations of moral duty.
6. Show; resemblance; superficial appearance.
The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.
7. In law, credit or estimation.
To keep the countenance, is to preserve a calm, composed or natural look, unruffled by passion; to refrain from expressing laughter, joy, anger or other passion, by an unchanged countenance.
In countenance, in favor; in estimation.
If the profession of religion were in countenance among men of distinction, it would have a happy effect on society.
To keep in countenance, to give assurance or courage to; to support; to aid by favor; to prevent from shame or dismay.
To put in countenance, to give assurance; to encourage; or to bring into favor; to support.
Out of countenance, confounded; abashed; with the countenance cast down; not bold or assured.
To put out of countenance, to cause the countenance to fall; to abash; to intimidate; to disconcert.
COUNTENANCE, v.t. 
1. To favor; to encourage by opinion or words.
The design was made known to the minister, but he said nothing to countenance it.
2. To aid; to support; to encourage; to abet; to vindicate; by any means.
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. Exodus 23.
3. To encourage; to appear in defense.
He countenanced the landing in his long boat.
4. To make a show of.
Each to these ladies love did countenance.
5. To keep an appearance.


Topic: Counter
Definition:
COUNTER, n. [from count.]
1. A false piece of money or stamped metal, used as means of reckoning; any thing used to keep an account or reckoning, as in games.
2. Money, in contempt.
3. A table or board on which money is counted; a table on which goods in a shop are laid for examination by purchasers. In lieu of this, we sometimes see written the French comptoir, from compter, computo; but counter is the genuine orthography.
4. The name of certain prisons in London.
5. One that counts or reckons; also, an auditor.
6. Encounter. [Not used.]
7. In ships, an arch or vault, whose upper part is terminated by the bottom of the stern. The upper or second counter is above the former, but not vaulted.
Counter of a horse, that part of a horses forehand which lies between the shoulder and under the neck.
COUNTER, adv. [L.]
1. Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; used chiefly with run or go; as, to run counter to the rules of virtue; he went counter to his own interest.
2. The wrong way; contrary to the right course.
3. Contrariwise; in a contrary manner.
4. The face, or at the face. [Not used.]
This word is prefixed to many others, chiefly verbs and nouns, expressing opposition.


Topic: Counter-evidence
Definition:
COUNTER-EVIDENCE, n. [counter and evidence.] Opposite evidence; evidence or testimony which opposes other evidence.


Topic: Counter-negotiation
Definition:
COUNTER-NEGOTIATION, noun [counter and negotiation.] Negotiation in opposition to other negotiation.


Topic: Counter-opening
Definition:
COUNTER-OPENING, n. [counter and opening.] An aperture or vent on the opposite side, or in a different place.


Topic: Counteract
Definition:
COUNTERACT, v.t. [counter and act.] To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat or frustrate by contrary agency. Good precepts will sometimes counteract the effects of evil example; but more generally good precepts are counteracted by bad examples.


Topic: Counterbalance
Definition:
COUNTERBALANCE, v.t. [counter and balance.] To weigh against; to weigh against with an equal weight; to act against with equal power or effect; to countervail A column of thirty inches of quicksilver, and a column of thirty-two feet of water, counterbalance the weight of a like column of the whole atmosphere. The pleasures of sin never counterbalance the pain, misery and shame which follow the commission of it.
COUNTERBALANCE, n. Equal weight, power or agency acting in opposition to any thing.
Money is the counterbalance of all things purchasable.


Topic: Counterbuff
Definition:
COUNTERBUFF, v.t. [counter and buff.] To strike back or in an opposite direction; to drive back; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.


Topic: Countercaster
Definition:
COUNTERCASTER, n. [counter and caster.] A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper, in contempt.


Topic: Counterchange
Definition:
COUNTERCHANGE, n. [counter and change.] Exchange; reciprocation.
COUNTERCHANGE, v.t. To give and receive; or to cause to change places.


Topic: Countercharm
Definition:
COUNTERCHARM, n. [counter and charm.] That which has the power of dissolving or opposing the effect of a charm.
COUNTERCHARM, v.t. To destroy the effect of enchantment.


Topic: Countercheck
Definition:
COUNTERCHECK, v.t. [counter and check.] To oppose or stop by some obstacle; to check.
COUNTERCHECK, n. Check; stop; rebuke; or a censure to check a reprover.


Topic: Countercurrent
Definition:
COUNTERCURRENT, a. [counter and current.] Running in an opposite direction.
COUNTERCURRENT, n. A current in an opposite direction.


Topic: Counterdraw
Definition:
COUNTERDRAW, v.t. [counter and draw.] In painting, to copy a design or painting, by means of a fine linen cloth, an oiled paper, or other transparent matter, whereon the strokes appearing through, they are traced with a pencil.  The same is done on glass, and with frames or nets divided into squares with silk or thread, or by means of instruments, as the parallelogram.


Topic: Counterfeit
Definition:
COUNTERFEIT, v.t. 
1. To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged, for that which is original or genuine; as, to counterfeit coin, bank notes, a seal, a bond, a deed or other instrument in writing, the hand writing or signature of another, &c. To make a likeness or resemblance of any thing with a view to defraud.
2. To imitate; to copy; to make or put on a resemblance; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person; to counterfeit piety.
COUNTERFEIT, v.i. To feign; to dissemble; to carry on a fiction or deception.
COUNTERFEIT, a. 
1. Forged; fictitious; false; fabricated without right; made in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud, by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as counterfeit coin; a counterfeit bond or deed; a counterfeit bill or exchange.
2. Assuming the appearance of something; false; hypocritical; as a counterfeit friend.
3. Having the resemblance of; false; not genuine; as counterfeit modesty.
COUNTERFEIT, n. 
1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an imposter.
2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens.
3.That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, and with a view to defraud, by passing the false for the true. We say, the note is a counterfeit.


Topic: Counterfeited
Definition:
COUNTERFEITED, pp. Forged; made in imitation of something, with a view to defraud; copied; imitated; feigned.


Topic: Counterfeiter
Definition:
COUNTERFEITER, n. 
1. One who counterfeits; a forger.
2. One who copies or imitates; one who assumes a false appearance.
3. One who endeavors to set off a thing in false colors.


Topic: Counterfoil
Definition:
COUNTERFOIL, COUNTERSTOCK, n. That part of a tally struck in the Exchequer, which is kept by an officer in that court, the other being delivered to the person who has lent the king money on the account, and is called the stock.


Topic: Counterfort
Definition:
COUNTERFORT, n. [counter and fort.] A buttress, spur or pillar serving to support a wall or terrace subject to bulge.


Topic: Countergage
Definition:
COUNTERGAGE, n. [counter and gage.] In carpentry, a method used to measure the joints, by transferring the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be, in order to make them fit each other.


Topic: Counterguard
Definition:
COUNTERGUARD,n. [counter and guard.] In fortification, a small rampart or work raised before the point of a bastion, consisting of two long faces parallel to the faces of the bastion, making a salient angle, to preserve the bastion. It is sometimes of a different shape, or differently situated.


Topic: Counterlight
Definition:
COUNTERLIGHT, n. [counter and light.] A light opposite to any thing, which makes it appear to disadvantage.


Topic: Countermand
Definition:
COUNTERMAND, v.t. [L., to command.]
1. To revoke a former command; or to give an order contrary to one before given, which annuls a former command and forbids its execution; as, to countermand orders.
2. To oppose; to contradict the orders of another.
3. To prohibit. [Little used.]
COUNTERMAND, n. A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.


Topic: Countermarch
Definition:
COUNTERMARCH, n. 
1. A marching back; a returning.
2. A change of the wings or face of a battalion, so as to bring the right to the left or the front into the rear.
3. A change of measures; alteration of conduct.


Topic: Countermark
Definition:
COUNTERMARK, n. [counter and mark.]
1. A second or third mark put on a bale of goods belonging to several merchants, that it may not be opened, but in the presence of all the owners.
2. The mark of the goldsmiths company, to show the metal to be standard, added to that of the artificer.
3. An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses, that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
4. A mark added to a medal, a long time after it has been struck, by which its several changes of value may be known.
COUNTERMARK, v.t. To mark the corner teeth of a horse by an artificial cavity, to disguise his age.


Topic: Countermine
Definition:
COUNTERMINE, n. [counter and mine.]
1. In military affairs, a well and gallery sunk in the earth and running under ground, in search of the enemys mine, or till it meets it, to defeat its effect.
2. Means of opposition or counteraction.
3. A stratagem or project to frustrate any contrivance.
COUNTERMINE, v.t. 
1. To sink a well and gallery in the earth, in search of an enemys mine, to frustrate his designs.
2. To counterwork; to frustrate by secret and opposite measures.


Topic: Countermure
Definition:
COUNTERMURE, n. [L., a wall.] A wall raised behind another, to supply its place, when a breach is made.
COUNTERMURE, n. To fortify with a wall behind another.


Topic: Counternoise
Definition:
COUNTERNOISE, n. [counter and noise.] A noise or sound by which another noise or sound is overpowered.


Topic: Counterpace
Definition:
COUNTERPACE, n. [counter and pace.] A step or measure in opposition to another; contrary measure or attempt.


Topic: Counterpaled
Definition:
COUNTERPALED, a. [counter and pale.] In heraldry, is when the escutcheon is divided into twelve pales parted perfesse, the two colors being counterchanged; so that the upper and lower are of different colors.


Topic: Counterpane
Definition:
COUNTERPANE, n. 
1. A particular kind of coverlet for a bed. [See Counterpoint.]
2. One part of an indenture.


Topic: Counterpart
Definition:
COUNTERPART, n. [counter and part.]
1. The correspondent part; the part that answers to another, as the two papers of a contract or indentures; a copy; a duplicate.  Also, the part which fits another, as the key of a cipher.
2. In music, the part to be applied to another; as, the base is the counterpart to the treble.


Topic: Counterpassant
Definition:
COUNTERPASSANT, a. [counter and passant.] In heraldry, is when two lions in a coat of arms are represented as going contrary ways.


Topic: Counterplot
Definition:
COUNTERPLOT, v.t. [counter and plot.] To oppose one plot to another; to attempt to frustrate stratagem by stratagem.
COUNTERPLOT, n. A plot or artifice opposed to another.


Topic: Counterpoint
Definition:
COUNTERPOINT, n. 
1. A coverlet; a cover for a bed, stitched or woven in squares; written corruptly counterpane.
2. In music, counterpoint is when the musical characters by which the notes in each part are signified, are placed in such a manner, each with respect to each, as to show how the parts answer one to another. Hence counterpoint in composition is the art of combining and modulating consonant sounds.
3. An opposite point.


Topic: Counterpoise
Definition:
COUNTERPOISE, v.t. s as z. [See Poise.]
1. To counterbalance; to weigh against with equal weight; to be equiponderant to; to equal in weight.
The force and distance of weights counterpoising each other, ought to be reciprocal.
The heaviness of bodies must be counterpoised by a plummet fastened about the pulley to the axis.
2. To act against the equal power or effect; to balance. The wisdom of the senate may be able to counterpoise the rash impetuosity of a democratic house.
COUNTERPOISE, n. 
1. Equal weight acting in opposition to something; equiponderance; a weight sufficient to balance another in the opposite scale; equal balance.
2. Equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force; equipollence.
The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility.
3. In the manege, a position of the rider in which his body is duly balanced in his seat, not inclined more to one than the other.


Topic: Counterpoison
Definition:
COUNTERPOISON, n. s as z. [counter and poison.] One poison that destroys the effect of another; an antidote; a medicine that obviates the effects of poison.


Topic: Counterpressure
Definition:
COUNTERPRESSURE, n. [counter and pressure.] Opposing pressure; a force or pressure that acts in a contrary direction.


Topic: Counterproject
Definition:
COUNTERPROJECT, n. [counter and project.] A project, scheme or proposal, of one party, given in opposition to another, before given by the other party; as in the negotiation of a treaty.


Topic: Counterproof
Definition:
COUNTERPROOF, n. [counter and proof.] In rolling-press printing, a print taken off from another fresh printed, which, by being passed through the press, gives the figure of the former, but inverted.


Topic: Counterprove
Definition:
COUNTERPROVE, v.t. [counter and prove.] To take off a design in black lead or red chalk, by passing it through a rolling press with another piece of paper, both being moistened with a spunge.


Topic: Counterroll
Definition:
COUNTERROLL, n. [counter and roll.]
1. In law, a counterpart or copy of the rolls, relating to appeals, inquests, &c. 
2. As a verb, this word is contracted into control, which see.


Topic: Counterscarp
Definition:
COUNTERSCARP, n. In fortification, the exterior talus or slope of the ditch, or the talus that supports the earth of the covered way; but it often signifies the whole covered way, with its parapet and glacis; as when it is said, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.


Topic: Countersign
Definition:
COUNTERSIGN, v.t. [counter and sign.] Literally, to sign on the opposite side of an instrument or writing; hence, to sign, as secretary or other subordinate officer, a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest the authenticity of the writing. Thus charters signed by a king are countersigned by a secretary.  Bank notes signed by the president are countersigned by the cashier.
COUNTERSIGN, n. A private signal, word or phrase, given to soldiers on guard, with orders to let no man pass unless he first names that sign; a military watchword. Advance and give the countersign.


Topic: Countertenor
Definition:
COUNTERTENOR, COUNTER, n. [counter and tenor.] In music, one of the middle parts, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.


Topic: Countertime
Definition:
COUNTERTIME, n. [counter and time.]
1. In the manege, the defense or resistance of a horse that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman or the bad temper of the horse.
2. Resistance; opposition.


Topic: Countervail
Definition:
COUNTERVAIL, v.t. [counter and L., to avail or be strong.] To act against with equal force, or power; to equal; to act with equivalent effect against any thing; to balance; to compensate.
The profit will hardly countervail the inconveniences.
Although the enemy could not countervail the kings damage. Esther 7.
COUNTERVAIL, n. Equal weight or strength; power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight or value; compensation; requital.


Topic: Counterview
Definition:
COUNTERVIEW, n. [counter and view.]
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
2. Contrast; a position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition.


Topic: Counterwork
Definition:
COUNTERWORK. [See Work.] To work in opposition to; to counteract; to hinder any effect by contrary operations.
That counterworks each folly and caprice.


Topic: Counting-house
Definition:
COUNTING-HOUSE, COUNTING-ROOM, n. [See Count, the verb.] The house or room appropriated by merchants, traders and manufacturers to the business of keeping their books, accounts, letters and papers.


Topic: Countless
Definition:
COUNTLESS, a. [count and less.] That cannot be counted; not having the number ascertained, nor ascertainable; innumerable. The sands of the sea-shore are countless.


Topic: Country
Definition:
COUNTRY, n. [L., land adjacent to a city. Hence the citizen says, let us go into the country. The Latin has conterraneus, a countryman.]
1. Properly, the land lying about or near a city; the territory situated in the vicinity of a city. Our friend has a seat in the country, a few miles from town. See Mark 5. Luke 8. Hence, 
2. The whole territory of a kingdom or state, as opposed to city. We say, the gentleman has a seat in the country, at any distance from town indefinitely. Hence, 
3. Any tract of land, or inhabited land; any region, as distinguished from other regions; a kingdom, state or lesser district. We speak of all the countries of Europe or Asia.
And they came into the country of Moab. Ruth 1.
4. The kingdom , state or territory in which one is born; the land of nativity; or the particular district indefinitely in which one is born. America is my country, or Connecticut is my country.
Laban said, it must not be so done in our country. Genesis 29.
5. The region in which one resides.
He sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country. Hebrews 11.
6. Land, as opposed to water; or inhabited territory.
The shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts 27.
7. The inhabitants of a region.
All the country wept with a loud voice. 2 Samuel 15.
8. A place of residence; a region of permanent habitation.
They declare plainly that they seek a country. Hebrews 11.
They desire a better country, a heavenly. Hebrews 11.
9. In law, a jury or jurors; as, trial by the country, per pais.
COUNTRY, a. 
1. Pertaining to the country or territory at a distance from a city; rural; rustic; as a country town; a country seat; a country squire; a country life; the country party, as opposed to city party.
2. Pertaining or peculiar to ones own country.
He spoke in his country language.
3. Rude; ignorant.
Country-dance, and erroneous orthography. [See Contra-dance.]


Topic: Countryman
Definition:
COUNTRYMAN, n. 
1. One born in the same country with another. This man is my countryman. [See 2 Corinthians 11:26]
2. One who dwells in the country, as opposed to a citizen; a rustic; a farmer or husbandmen; a man of plain unpolished manners.
3. An inhabitant or native of a region. What countryman is he?


Topic: County
Definition:
COUNTY, n. [L. See Count.]
1. Originally, an earldom; the district or territory of a count or earl. Now, a circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice. It is called also a shire. [See Shire.] Each county has its sheriff and its court, with other officers employed in the administration of justice and the execution of the laws. In England there are fifty two counties, and in each is a Lord Lieutenant, who has command of the militia.  The several states of America are divided by law into counties, in each of which is a county court of inferior jurisdiction; and in each, the supreme court of the state holds stated sessions.
2. A count; an earl or lord.
County court, the court whose jurisdiction is limited to a county, whose powers, in America, depend on statutes. In England, it is incident to the jurisdiction of the sheriff.
County palatine, in England, is a county distinguished by particular privileges; so called a palatio, the palace, because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but their powers are not abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester and Durham.
County corporate, is a county invested with particular privileges by charter or royal grant; as London, York, Bristol, &c.
COUNTY, a. Pertaining to a county; as county court.


Topic: Coupee
Definition:
COUPEE, n. A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent and suspended from the ground, and with the other a motion is made forward.


Topic: Couple
Definition:
COUPLE, n. [L. G.]
1. Two of the same species or kind, and near in place, or considered together; as a couple of men; a couple or oranges. I have planted a couple of cherry trees. We cannot call a horse and an ox a couple, unless we add a generic term. Of a horse and ox feeding in a pasture, we should say, a couple of animals. Among huntsmen and soldiers, brace is used for couple; as a brace of ducks; a brace or pistols. Couple differs from pair, which implies strictly not only things of the same kind, but likeness, equality or customary association.  A pair is a couple; but a couple may or may not be a pair.
2. Two things of any kind connected or linked together.
3. A male and female connected by marriage, betrothed or allied; as a married couple; a young couple.
4. That which links or connects two things together; a chain.
COUPLE, v.t. 
1. To link, chain or connect one thing with another; to sew or fasten together.
Thou shalt couple the curtains with taches. Exodus 26.
2. To marry; to wed; to unite, as husband and wife.
COUPLE, v.i. To embrace, as the sexes.


Topic: Couplet
Definition:
COUPLET, n. 
1. Two verses; a pair of rhymes.
2. A division of a hymn or ode in which an equal number or equal measure of verse is found in each part, called a strophe.
3. A pair; as a couplet of doves. [Not used.]


Topic: Coupling
Definition:
COUPLING, ppr. Uniting in couples; fastening or connecting together; embracing.
COUPLING, n. 
1. That which couples or connects. 2 Chronicles 34
2.The act of coupling. 


Topic: Courage
Definition:
COURAGE, n. [L., the heart.] Bravery; intrepidity; that quality of mind which enables men to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear or depression of spirits; valor; boldness; resolution. It is a constituent part of fortitude; but fortitude implies patience to bear continued suffering.
Courage that grows from constitution, often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty, acts in a uniform manner.
Be strong and of good courage. Deuteronomy 31.


Topic: Courageous
Definition:
COURAGEOUS, a. Brave; bold; daring; intrepid; hardy to encounter difficulties and dangers; adventurous; enterprising. 
Be thou strong and courageous. Joshua 1.


Topic: Couranto
Definition:
COURANT, COURANTO, n. 
1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a kind of dance, consisting of a time, a step, a balance and a coupee.
2. The title of a newspaper.


Topic: Courap
Definition:
COURAP, n. A distemper in the East Indies; a kind of herpes or itch in the armpits, groin, breast and face.


Topic: Courbaril
Definition:
COURBARIL, n. Gum anime, which flows from the Hymenaea, a tree of South America; used for varnishing.


Topic: Course
Definition:
COURSE, n. 
1. In its general sense, a passing; a moving, or motion forward, in a direct or curving line; applicable to any body or substance, solid or fluid.
Applied to animals, a running, or walking; a race; a career; a passing, or passage, with any degree of swiftness indefinitely.
Applied to fluids, a flowing, as in a stream in any direction; as a straight course, or winding course. It is applied to water or other liquids, to air or wind, and to light, in the sense of motion or passing.
Applied to solid bodies, it signifies motion or passing; as the course of a rolling stone; the course of a carriage; the course of the earth in its orbit.
Applied to navigation, it signifies a passing or motion on water, or in balloons in air; a voyage.
2. The direction of motion; line of advancing; point of compass, in which motion is directed; as, what course shall the pilot steer? In technical language, the angel contained between the nearest meridian and that point of compass on which a ship sails in any direction.
3. Ground on which a race is run.
4. A passing or process; the progress of any thing; as the course of an argument, or of a debate; a course of thought or reflexion.
5. Order of proceeding or of passing from an ancestor to an heir; as the course of descent in inheritance.
6. Order; turn; class; succession of one to another in office, or duty.
The chief fathers of every course. 1 Chronicles 27. 
Solomon appointed the courses of the priests. 2 Chronicles 8.
7. Stated and orderly method of proceeding; usual manner. He obtained redress in due course of law. Leave nature to her course.
8. Series of successive and methodical procedure; a train of acts, or applications; as a course of medicine administered.
9. A methodical series, applied to the arts or sciences; a systemized order of principles in arts or sciences, for illustration of instruction. We say, the author has completed a course of principles or of lectures in philosophy. Also, the order pursued by a student; as, he has completed a course of studies in law or physics.
10. Manner of proceeding; way of life or conduct; deportment; series of actions.
That I might finish my course with joy. Acts 20.
Their course is evil. Jeremiah 23.
11. Line of conduct; manner of proceeding; as, we know not what course to pursue. 
12. Natural bent; propensity; uncontrolled will. Let not a perverse child take his own course.
13. Tilt; act of running in the lists.
14. Orderly structure; system.
The tongue setteth on fire the course of nature. James 3.
15. Any regular series. In architecture, a continued range of stones, level or of the same highth, throughout the whole length of the building, and not interrupted by any aperture. A laying of bricks, &c.
16. The dishes set on table at one time; service of meat.
17. Regularity; order; regular succession; as, let the classes follow in course.
18. Empty form; as, compliments are often words of course.
Of course, by consequence; in regular or natural order; in the common manner of proceeding; without specila direction or provision. This effect will follow of course. If the defendant resides no in the state, the cause is continued of course.


Topic: Courser
Definition:
COURSER, n. 
1. A swift horse; a runner; a war-horse; a word used chiefly in poetry.
2. One who hunts; one who pursues the sport of coursing hares.
3. A disputant. [Not in use.]


Topic: Courses
Definition:
COURSES, n. plu.
1. In a ship, the principal sails, as the main sail, fore sail, and mizen; sometimes the name is given to the stay sails on the lower masts; also to the main stay sails of all brigs and schooners.
2. Catamenia; menstrual flux.


Topic: Coursing
Definition:
COURSING, ppr. Hunting; chasing; running; flowing; compelling to run.
COURSING, n. The act or sport of chasing and hunting hares, foxes or deer.


Topic: Court
Definition:
COURT, n. 
1. A place in front of a house, inclosed by a wall or fence; in popular language, a court-yard.
2. A space inclosed by houses, broader than a street; or a space forming a kind of recess from a public street.
3. A palace; the place of residence of a king or sovereign prince.
4. The hall, chamber or place where justice is administered.
St. Paul was brought into the highest court in Athens.
5. Persons who compose the retinue or council of a king or emperor.
6. The persons or judges assembled for hearing and deciding causes, civil, criminal, military, naval or ecclesiastical; as a court of law; a court of chancery; a court martial; a court of admiralty; an ecclesiastical court; court baron; &c. Hence, 
7. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
8. The art of pleasing; the art of insinuation; civility; flattery; address to gain favor. Hence the phrase, to make court, to attempt to please by flattery and address.
9. In scripture, an inclosed part of the entrance into a palace or house. The tabernacle had one court; the temple, three. The first was the court of the Gentiles; the second, the court of Israel, in which the people worshiped; the third was the court of the priests, where the priests and Levites exercised their ministry.  Hence places of public worship are called the courts of the Lord.
10. In the United States, a legislature consisting of two houses; as the General court of Massachusetts. The original constitution of Connecticut established a General Court in 1639.
11. A session of the legislature.
COURT, v.t. 
1. In a general sense, to flatter; to endeavor to please by civilities and address; a use of the word derived from the manners of a court.
2. To woo; to solicit for marriage. 
A thousand court you, though they court in vain.
3. To attempt to gain by address; to solicit; to seek; as, to court commendation or applause.


Topic: Court-house
Definition:
COURT-HOUSE, n. A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.


Topic: Court-leet
Definition:
COURT-LEET, n. A court of record held once a year, in particular hundred, lordship or manor, before the steward of the leet.


Topic: Court-martial
Definition:
COURT-MARTIAL, n. A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of offences of a military character.


Topic: Courteous
Definition:
COURTEOUS, a. [from court.]
1. Polite; wellbred; being of elegant manners; civil; obliging; condescending; applied to persons.
2. Polite; civil; graceful; elegant; complaisant; applied to manners, &c.


Topic: Courtesy
Definition:
COURTESY, n. 
1. Elegance or politeness of manners; especially, politeness connected with kindness; civility; complaisance; as, the gentleman shows great courtesy to strangers; he treats his friends with great courtesy.
2. An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.
3. The act of civility, respect or reverence, performed by a woman; a fall or inclination of the body, corresponding in design to the bow of a gentleman.
4. A favor; as, to hold upon courtesy, that is, not of right, but by indulgence.
Tenure by courtesy or curtesy, is where a man marries a woman seized of an estate of inheritance, and has by her issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate; in this case, on the death of his wife, he holds the lands for his life, as tenant by curtesy.
COURTESY, v.i. To perform an act of civiility, respect or reverence, as a woman. Note. This word was formerly applied to the other sex; but is now used only of the acts of reverence or civility, performed by women.
COURTESY, v.t. To treat with civility. [Not in use.]


Topic: Courtier
Definition:
COURTIER, n. [from court.]
1. A man who attends or frequents the courts of princes.
2. One who courts or solicits the favor of another; one who flatters to please; one who possesses the art of gaining favor by address and complaisance.
There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.


Topic: Courtliness
Definition:
COURTLINESS, n. [See Courtly.] Elegance of manners; grace of mien; civility; complaisance with dignity.


Topic: Courtly
Definition:
COURTLY, a. [court and like.] Relating to a court; elegant; polite with dignity; applied to men and manners; flattering, applied to language.
COURTLY, adv. In the manner of courts; elegantly; in a flattering manner.


Topic: Courtship
Definition:
COURTSHIP, n. 
1. The act of soliciting favor.
2. The act of wooing in love; solicitation of a woman to marriage.
3. Civility; elegance of manners.


Topic: Cousin
Definition:
COUSIN, n. 
1. In a general sense, one collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister. But, 
2. Appropriately, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt; the children of brothers and sisters being usually denominated cousins or cousin-germans. In the second generation, they are called second cousins.
3. A title given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council.
COUSIN, a. Allied.


Topic: Couter-signature
Definition:
COUTER-SIGNATURE, n. The name of a secretary or other subordinate officer, countersigned to a writing.
Below the Imperial name is commonly a countersignature of one of the cabinet ministers.


Topic: Cove
Definition:
COVE, n. A small inlet, creek or bay; a recess in the sea shore, where vessels and boats may sometimes be sheltered from the winds and waves.
COVE, v.t. TO arch over; as a coved ceiling.


Topic: Covenant
Definition:
COVENANT, n. [L, to come; a coming together; a meeting or agreement of minds.]
1. A mutual consent or agreement of two or more persons, to do or to forbear some act or thing; a contract; stipulation. A covenant is created by deed in writing, sealed and executed; or it may be implied in the contract.
2. A writing containing the terms of agreement or contract between parties; or the clause of agreement in a deed containing the covenant.
3. In theology, the covenant of works, is that implied in the commands, prohibitions, and promises of God; the promise of God to man, that mans perfect obedience should entitle him to happiness. This do, and live; that do, and die.
The covenant of redemption, is the mutual agreement between the Father and Son, respecting the redemption of sinners by Christ.
The covenant of grace, is that by which God engages to bestow salvation on man, upon the condition that man shall believe in Christ and yield obedience to the terms of the gospel.
4. In church affairs, a solemn agreement between the members of a church, that they will walk together according to the precepts of the gospel, in brotherly affection.
COVENANT, v.i. To enter into a formal agreement; to stipulate; to bind ones self by contract. A covenants with B to convey to him a certain estate. When the terms are expressed ti has for before the thing or price.
They covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. Matthew 26.
COVENANT, v.t. To grant or promise by covenant.


Topic: Cover
Definition:
COVER, v.t. [L.]
1. To overspread the surface of a thing with another substance; to lay or set over; as, to cover a table with a cloth, or a floor with a carpet.
The valleys are covered with corn. Psalm 65.
The locusts shall cover the face of the earth. Exodus 5.
2. To hide; to conceal by something overspread.
If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me-- Psalm 139.
3. To conceal by some intervening object; as, the enemy was covered from our sight by a forest.
4. To clothe; as, to cover with a robe or mantle; to cover nakedness. 1 Samuel 28:14. Exodus 28:42.
5. To overwhelm.
The waters covered the chariots and horsemen. Exodus 14.
Let them be covered with reproach. Psalm 71.
6. To conceal from notice or punishment.
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4.
7. To conceal; to refrain from disclosing or confessing. 
He that covereth his sin shall not prosper. Proverbs 28.
8. To pardon or remit.
Blessed is he whose sin is covered. Psalm 32.
9. To vail, applied to women. 1 Corinthians 11.  To wear a hat, applied to men. Be covered, sir.
10. To wrap, infold or envelop; as, to cover a package of goods.
11. To shelter; to protect; to defend. A squadron of horse covered the troops on the retreat.
And the soft wings of peace cover him around.
12. To brood; to incubate; as, a hen covering her eggs.
13. To copulate with a female.
14. To equal, or be of equal extent; to be equivalent to; as, the receipts do not cover the expenses; a mercantile use of the word.
15. To disguise; to conceal hypocritically.
16. To include, embrace or comprehend.  This land was covered by a mortgage.
COVER, n. 
1. Any thing which is laid, set or spread over another thing; as the cover of a vessel; the cover of a bed.
2. Any thing which vails or conceals; a screen; disguise; superficial appearance. Affected gravity may serve as a cover for a deceitful heart.
3. Shelter; defense; protection. The troops fought under cover of the batteries.
4. Concealment and protection. The army advanced under cover of the night.
5. Shelter; retreat; in hunting.


Topic: Covered
Definition:
COVERED, pp. Spread over; hid; concealed; clothed; vailed; having a hat on; wrapped; inclosed; sheltered; protected; disguised.


Topic: Covering
Definition:
COVERING, ppr. Spreading over; laying over; concealing; vailing; clothing; wrapping; inclosing; protecting; disguising.
COVERING, n. 
1. That which convers; any thing spread or laid over another, whether for security or concealment.
Noah removed the covering of the ark. Genesis 8.
He spread a cloud for a covering. Psalm 105.
Destruction hath no covering. Job 26.
2. A cover; a lid. 
Every open vessel that hath no covering. Numbers 19.
3. Clothing; raiment; garments; dress.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job 24.


Topic: Coverlet
Definition:
COVERLET, n. [cover, and a bed.] The cover of a bed; a piece of furniture designed to be spread over all the other covering of a bed.


Topic: Covert
Definition:
COVERT, a. 
1. Covered; hid; private; secret; concealed.
Whether of open war, or covert guile.
2. Disguised; insidious.
3. Sheltered; not open or exposed; as a covert alley, or place.
4. Under cover, authority or protection; as a feme-covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the influence and protection of her husband.
COVERT, n. 
1. A covering, or covering place; a place which covers and shelters; a shelter; a defense.
A tabernacle--for a covert from storm and rain. Isaiah 4. 
I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Psalm 111.
2. A thicket; a shady place, or a hiding place. 1 Samuel 25. Job 38. 


Topic: Covert-way
Definition:
COVERT-WAY, n. In fortification, a space of ground level with the field, on the edge of the ditch, three or four fathoms broad, ranging quite round the half moons or other works, towards the country.  It has a parapet raised on a level, together with its banquets and glacis.  It is called also the corridor, and sometimes the counterscarp, because it is on the edge of the scarp.


Topic: Covertly
Definition:
COVERTLY, adv. Secretly; closely; in private; insidiously.
Among the poets, Persius covertly strikes at Nero.


Topic: Coverture
Definition:
COVERTURE, n. 
1. Covering; shelter; defense.
2. In law, the state of a married woman, who is considered as under cover, or the power of her husband, and therefore called a feme-covert, or femme-couvert. The coverture of a woman disables her from making contracts to the prejudice of herself or husband, without his allowance or confirmation.


Topic: Covet
Definition:
COVET, v.t. 
1. To desire or wish for, with eagerness; to desire earnestly to obtain or possess; in a good sense.
Covet earnestly the best gifts. 1 Corinthians 12.
2. To desire inordinately; to desire that which it is unlawful to obtain or possess; in a bad sense.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house, wife or servant. Exodus 20.
COVET, v.i. To have an earnest desire. 1 Timothy 6.


Topic: Covetous
Definition:
COVETOUS, a. 
1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; in a good sense; as covetous of wisdom, virtue or learning.
2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess; directed to money or goods, avaricious.
A bishop must not be covetous. 1 Timothy 3.


Topic: Covetousness
Definition:
COVETOUSNESS, n. 
1. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; usually in a bad sense, and applied to an inordinate desire of wealth or avarice.
Out of the heart proceedeth covetousness. Mark 7.
Mortify your members--and covetousness which is idolatry. Colossians 3. 
2. Strong desire; eagerness.


Topic: Covey
Definition:
COVEY, n. 
1. A brood or hatch of birds; an old fowl with her brood of young. Hence, a small flock or number of fowls together; as a covey of partridges.
2. A company; a set.


Topic: Covin
Definition:
COVIN, n. In law, a collusive or deceitful agreement between two or more to prejudice a third person.


Topic: Coving
Definition:
COVING, n. [See Cove.] In building, a term denoting an arch or arched projecture, as when houses are built so as to project over the ground-plot, ad the turned projecture arched with timber, lathed and plastered.


Topic: Cow
Definition:
COW, n. plu. cows; old plu. kine.  The female of the bovine genus of animals; a quadruped with cloven hoofs, whose milk furnishes an abundance of food and profit to the farmer.
Sea-cow, the Manatus, a species of the Trichechus. [See Sea-cow.]
COW, v.t. To depress with fear; to sink the spirits or courage; to oppress with habitual timidity.


Topic: Cow-itch
Definition:
COWHAGE, COW-ITCH, n. A leguminous plant of the genus Dolichos, a native of warm climates. It has a fibrous root and an herbaceous climbing stalk, with red papilionaceous flowers, and leguminous, coriaceous pods, crooked and covered with sharp hairs, which penetrate the skin, and cause an itching.


Topic: Coward
Definition:
COWARD, n. [L.]
1. A person who wants courage to meet danger; a poltroon; a timid or pusillanimous man.
A coward does not always escape with disgrace, but sometimes loses his life.
2. In heraldry, a term given to a lion borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
COWARD, a. 
1. Destitute of courage; timid; base; as a coward wretch.
2. Proceeding from or expressive of fear, or timidity; as coward cry; coward joy.


Topic: Cowardice
Definition:
COWARDICE, n. Want of courage to face danger; timidity; pusillanimity; fear of exposing ones person to danger.
Cowardice alone is loss of fame.
Did cowardice; did injustice ever save a sinking state.


Topic: Cowardly
Definition:
COWARDLY, a. 
1. Wanting courage to face danger; timid; timorous; fearful; pusillanimous.
2. Mean; base; befitting a coward; as a cowardly action.
3. Proceeding from fear of danger; as cowardly silence.
COWARDLY, adv. In the manner of a coward; meanly; basely.


Topic: Cower
Definition:
COWER, v.i. To sink by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; to stoop or sink downwards.
Our dame wits cowering oer a kitchen fire.
COWER, v.t. To cherish with care. [Not used.]


Topic: Cowl
Definition:
COWL, n. 
1. A monks hood, or habit, worn by the Bernardines and Benedictines. It is either white or black.
What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl?
2. A vessel to be carried on a pole betwixt two persons, for the conveyance of water.


Topic: Cows-lip
Definition:
COWSLIP, COWS-LIP, n. A plant of the genus Primula, or primrose, of several varieties. The American cowship belongs to the genus Dodecatheon; the Jerusalem and mountain cowslip, to the genus Pulmonaria.


Topic: Coxcomb
Definition:
COXCOMB, n. [cocks comb.] 
1. The top of the head.
2. The comb resembling that of a cock, which licensed fools wore formerly in their caps.
3. A fop; a vain showy fellow; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments.
4. A kind of red flower; a name given to a species of Celosia, and some other plants.


Topic: Coy
Definition:
COY, a. Modest; silent; reserved; not accessible; shy; not easily condescending to familiarity.
Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy.
COY, v.i. 
1. To behave with reserve; to be silent or distant; to refrain from speech or free intercourse.
2. To make difficulty; to be backward or unwilling; not freely to condescend.
3. To smooth or stroke.
COY, for decoy, to allure. [Not in use.]


Topic: Coyness
Definition:
COYNESS, n. Reserve; unwillingness to become familiar; disposition to avoid free intercourse, by silence or retirement.
When the kind nymph would coyness feign, and hides but to be found again.


Topic: Cozen
Definition:
COZEN, v.t. 
1. To cheat; to defraud.
He that suffers a government to be abused by carelessness and neglect, does the same thing with him that corruptly sets himself to cozen it.
2. To deceive; to beguile.
Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters.


Topic: Crab
Definition:
CRAB, n. [Gr. L.]
1 A crustaceous fish, the cray-fish, Cancer, a genus containing numerous species. They have usually ten feet, two of which are furnished with claws; two eyes, pedunculated, elongated and movable. To this genus belong the lobster, the shrimp, &c.
2. A wild apple, or the tree producing it; so named from its rough taste.
3. A peevish morose person.
4. A wooden engine with three claws for launching ships and heaving them into the dock.
5. A pillar used sometimes for the same purpose as a capstan.
6. Cancer, a sign in the zodiac.
Crabs claws, in the materia medica, the tips of the claws of the common crab; used as absorbents.
Crabs eyes, in pharmacy, concretions formed in the stomach of the cray-fish. They are rounded on one side, and depressed and sinuated on the other, considerably heavy, moderately hard, and without smell. They are absorbent, discussive and diuretic.
Crab-lice, small insects that stick fast to the skin.
CRAB, a. Sour; rough; austere.


Topic: Crab-yaws
Definition:
CRAB-YAWS, n. The name of a disease in the West Indies, being a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with hard callous lips.


Topic: Crabbed
Definition:
CRABBED, a. [from crab.]
1. Rough; harsh; austere; sour; peevish; morose; cynical; applied to the temper.
2. Rough; harsh; applied to things.
3. Difficult; perplexing; as a crabbed author or subject.


Topic: Crabbedness
Definition:
CRABBEDNESS, n. 
1. Roughness; harshness.
2. Sourness; peevishness; asperity.
3. Difficulty; perplexity.


Topic: Crack
Definition:
CRACK, v.t. 
1. To rend, break, or burst into chinks; to break partially; to divide the parts a little from each other; as, to crack a board or a rock; or to break without an entire severance of the parts; as, to crack glass, or ice.
2. To break in pieces; as, to crack nuts.
3. To break with grief; to affect deeply; to pain; to torture; as, to crack the heart. We now use break , or rend.
4. To open and drink; as, to crack a bottle of wine. [Low.]
5. To thrust out, or cast with smartness; as, to crack a joke.
6. To snap; to make a sharp sudden noise; as, to crack a whip.
7. To break or destroy.
8. To impair the regular exercise of the intellectual faculties; to disorder; to make crazy; as, to crack the brain.
CRACK, v.i.
1. To burst; to open in chinks; as, the earth cracks by frost; or to be marred without an opening; as, glass cracks by a sudden application of heat.
2. To fall to ruin, or to be impaired.
The credit of the exchequer cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. [Not elegant.]
3. To utter a loud or sharp sudden sound; as, the clouds crack; the whip cracks.
4. To boast; to brag; that is, to utter vain, pompous, blustering words; with of.
The Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack. [Not elegant.]
CRACK, n. [Gr.]
1. A disruption; a chinkor fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; a partial separation of the parts of a substance, with or without an opening; as a crack in timber, in a wall, or in glass.
2. A burst of sound; a sharp or loud sound, uttered suddenly or with vehemence; the sound of any thing suddenly rent; a violent report; as the crack of a falling house; the crack of a whip.
3. Change of voice in puberty.
4. Craziness of intellect; or a crazy person.
5. A boast, or boaster. [Low.]
6. Breach of chastity; and a prostitute. [Low.]
7. A lad; an instant. [Not used.]


Topic: Cracker
Definition:
CRACKER, n. 
1. A noisy boasting fellow.
2. A rocket; a quantity of gunpowder confined so as to explode with noise.
3. A hard biscuit.
4. That which cracks any thing.


Topic: Cracking
Definition:
CRACKING,ppr. Breaking or dividing partially; opening; impairing; snapping; uttering a sudden sharp or loud sound; boasting; casting jokes.


Topic: Crackle
Definition:
CRACKLE, v.i. To make slight cracks; to make small abrupt noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to decrepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.


Topic: Crackling
Definition:
CRACKLING, ppr. Making slight cracks, or abrupt noises.
CRACKLING, n. The making of small abrupt cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
The crackling of thorns under a pot. Ecclesiastes 7.


Topic: Cradle
Definition:
CRADLE, n. [Gr., to swing.]
1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise.
Me let the tender office long engage, to rock the cradle of reposing age.
2. Infancy. From the cradle, is from the state of infancy; in the cradle, in a state of infancy.
3. That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put.
4. In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set.
5. In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching.  It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways.
6. A standing bedstead for wounded seamen.
7. In engraving, an instrument, formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate.
8. In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath.
CRADLE, v.t.
1. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet.
It cradles their fears to sleep.
2. To nurse in infancy.
3. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
CRADLE, v.i. To lie or lodge in a cradle.


Topic: Craft
Definition:
CRAFT, n. 
1. Art; ability; dexterity; skill.
Poesy is the poets skill or craft of making--
2. Cunning, art or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit.
The chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark 14. 
3. Art; skill; dexterity in a particular manual occupation; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; trade.
Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts 19.
4. All sorts of vessels employed in loading or unloading ships, as lighters, hoys, barges, scows, &c.
Small craft is a term given to small vessels of all hinds, as sloops, schooners, cutters, &c.
CRAFT, v.i. To play tricks. [Not in use.]


Topic: Craftily
Definition:
CRAFTILY, adv. [See Crafty.] With craft, cunning or guile; artfully; cunningly; with more art than honesty.


Topic: Craftiness
Definition:
CRAFTINESS, n. Artfulness; dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job 5.
Not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully. 2 Corinthians 4.


Topic: Crafty
Definition:
CRAFTY, a. 
1. Cunning; artful; skillful in devising and pursuing a scheme, by deceiving others, or by taking advantage of their ignorance; wily; sly; fraudulent.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5.
2. Artful; cunning; in a good sense, or in a laudable pursuit.
Being crafty, I caught you with guile. 2 Corinthians 12.


Topic: Crag
Definition:
CRAG, n. [Gr., to break, L., breaking. See Crack.] A steep rugged rock; a rough broken rock, or point of a rock.
CRAG, n. [Gr. Roughness, or break. We now call it rack.] The neck, formerly applied to the neck of a human being, as in Spenser. We now apply it to the neck or neck-piece of mutton, and call it a rack of mutton.


Topic: Cragged
Definition:
CRAGGED, a. Full of crags or broken rocks; rough; rugged; abounding with prominences, points and inequalities.


Topic: Craggy
Definition:
CRAGGY, a. Full of crags; abounding with broken rocks; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as the craggy side of a mountain; a craggy cliff.


Topic: Crake
Definition:
CRAKE, n. A boast. [See Crack.]
CRAKE, n. The corn-crake, a migratory fowl, is a species of the rail, Rallus, found among grass, corn, broom or furze.  Its cry is very singular, crek, crek, and is imitated by rubbing the blade of a knife on an indented bone, by which it may be decoyed into a net.


Topic: Cram
Definition:
CRAM, v.t. 
1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.
2. To fill with food beyond satiety; to stuff.
Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.
3. To thrust in by force; to crowd.
Fate has crammed us all into one lease.
CRAM, v.i. TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff.


Topic: Cramp
Definition:
CRAMP, n. 
1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.
2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion.
A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, &c.; a cramp-iron. 
CRAMP, v.t. 
1. To pain or affect with spasms.
2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius.
3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron.
CRAMP, a. Difficult; knotty. [Little used.]


Topic: Cramp-fish
Definition:
CRAMP-FISH, n. The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which affects a person like electricity, causing a slight shock and producing numbness, tremor, and sickness of the stomach.


Topic: Cranage
Definition:
CRANAGE, n. [from crane. Low L.] The liberty of using a crane at a wharf for raising wares from a vessel; also, the money or price paid for the use of a crane.


Topic: Cranberry
Definition:
CRANBERRY, n. [crane and berry.] A species of Vaccinium; a berry that grows on a slender, bending stalk. Its botanical name is oxycoccus, [sour berry,] and it is also called moss-berry, or moor-berry, as it grows only on peat-bogs or swampy land. The berry when ripe is red, and of the size of a small cherry or of the hawthorn berry. These berries form a sauce of exquisite flavor, and are used for tarts. The cranberry of the United States is a distinct species, the V. Macrocarpon. [The common pronunciation, cramberry, is erroneous.]


Topic: Crane
Definition:
CRANE, n. [Gr., the plant, cranes-bill.]
1. A migratory fowl of the genus Ardea, belonging to the grallic order. The bill is straight, sharp and long, with a furrow from the nostrils towards the point; the nostrils are linear, and the feet have four toes. These fowls have long legs, and a long neck, being destined to wade and seek their food among grass and reeds in marshy grounds. The common crane is about four feet in length, of a slender body, with ash-coloured feathers.
2. A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a horizontal arm, or piece of timber, projecting from a post, and furnished with a tackle or pulley.
3. A siphon, or crooked pipe for drawing liquors out of a cask.


Topic: Crane-fly
Definition:
CRANE-FLY, n. An insect of the genus Tipula, of many species. The mouth is a prolongation of the head; the upper jaw is arched; the palpi are two, curved and longer than the head; the proboscis is short.


Topic: Cranes-bill
Definition:
CRANES-BILL, n. The plant Geranium, of many species; so named from an appendage of the seed-vessel, which resembles the beak of a crane or stork. Some of the species have beautiful flowers and a fragrant scent, and several of them are valued for their astringent properties. [See Crane.]
2. A pair of pinchers used by surgeons.


