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One who consoles or comforts. Johnson.

ose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. Johnson.

n. [Obs.] The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. Johnson.

Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

he army continued to advance. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John viii. 31.

To import illegaly, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. [Obs.] Johnson.

the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. Johnson.

account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

roversy about the title. Locke. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Johnson.

change of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay.

aulay. They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John viii. 9.

To prove guilty; to convinct. [Obs.] Which of you convinceth me of sin John viii. 46. Seek not to convince me of a crime Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon. Dryden.

A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson.

See Coupe. [Obs.] Johnson.

A covering for the head. [Obs.] Johnson.

ing or joining; union; conjunction. Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas. Johnson.

or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily. -- Corn fly. (Z…

The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.

s a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.