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A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory. Bacon.

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. Milton. We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. Byron.

A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

Having or wearing a crown.

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

e better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.

Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.

Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.

Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebræ.

Wearing a cothurn.

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

rtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant. A patient and courteous bearing. Prescott. His behavior toward his people is grave and courteous. Fuller.

Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk. "That cowled churchman." Emerson.

A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.

A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.