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A gallon, or four quarts. [Often abbreviated to cong.]

r to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

rder of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson. Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also written conjunct.

A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.

trides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

ave capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [Written also comb.]

equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

dge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part. From the four corners of the earth they come. Shak.

The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points. [Written also cronel.] Grose.

An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.

U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.] -- County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.

A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

art of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. -- Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.

y parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

mits of the bowler and the striker. Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler.…

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances. A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

ics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. -- Cross bottony or bottoné.…