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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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14,304 words match “TED”

Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.

COMPACTEDLY adv.

In a compact manner.

COMPACTEDNESS n.

A state of being compact.

Complexioned. [Low, New Eng.]

CONCEITED a. 3 definitions

Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.] He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles.

CONCEITEDLY adv. 2 definitions

In an egotistical manner.

CONCEITEDNESS n.

The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.

Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. Concerted piece (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.

Fated or decreed with something else. [R.] A. Tucker.

CONFERRUMINATE; CONFERRUMINATED a.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

CONGESTED a. 2 definitions

Crowded together. Gray.

CONNECTEDLY adv.

In a connected manner.

CONSOLIDATED p. 2 definitions

Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated. Rees. A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall.

CONSTRICTED a. 2 definitions

Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing. -- Con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Con*tent"ed*ness, n.

CONTORTED a. 3 definitions

Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger.

CONTOURNIATED a.

Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.

CONTRACTED a. 3 definitions

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

CONTRACTEDNESS n.

The state of being contracted; narrowness; meannes; selfishness.

CONVOLUTED a. 2 definitions

Having convolutions. beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. Pennant.