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The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

shall continue forever, can not choose but aspire after a hapiness commensurate to their duration. Tillotson.

he Treasury, into commission, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the…

Suffering or enduring together. [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.] Barrow.

of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. Latham. Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. Bacon.

mation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.

ng that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson.

Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency. His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency. South.

trary constant, an undetermined constant in a differential equation having the same value during all changes in the values of the variables.

lities; the aggregate of the vital powers of an individual, with refernce to ability to endure hardship, resist disease, etc.; as, a robust constitution. Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the oid world. Story.

r over several consula. -- Vice consul, a consular officer holding the place of a consul during the consul's absence or after he has been relieved.

Serving to consummate; completing. "The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy." Sir W. Hamilton.

ticular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7.

To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last. But now thy kingdom shall not continue. 1 Sam. xiii. 14.

A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war. [U.S.] Contraband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belliger…

ether so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. Years contracting to a moment. Wordsworth.

Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills, when it commands "Silence."

A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]