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A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin. Hammond. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or…

Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton.

Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepfrom or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." South. What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman Hakewill.

state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the United States.

A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. Congreve.

Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward." Congrewe.

honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation. David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies. South.

To drain. [Obs.] Congreve.

yingness; you see that picture, Foible, -- a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so. Congreve.

A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.

al eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.

Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.

A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

rivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.]

Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.

An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn.

he title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."