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hem, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist. Federal Congress. See under Congress.

press joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate. Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom. W. Howitt.

The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.

Affording defense; defensive. [Obs.] Congreve.

To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. Bacon. To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.

efin'd in breasts seraphic glow. Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. Pope.

d so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

To feather, as an arrow. Bp. Warburton. [Congress] fletched their complaint, by adding: "America loved his brother." Bancroft.

A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.

onnected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.

Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne.

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

f separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate. And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. Byron. When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. Matt. ii. 4.

A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.