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Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.

Joint estate. Smolett.

See Colstaff.

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.

A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

See Cofessedly.

r gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount Blackmore.

Crowded together. Gray.

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.] The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn.

Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

on by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Prescott.

a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.

Capable of being contested; debatable.

One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon.

In a contending manner.

A stone for coping. See Coping.

A cobblestone. [Obs.]