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confession, the confession of sins made by a number of persons in common, as in public prayer. -- Westminster Confession. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.

A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

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

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.

A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause. Writ of consultation (Law), a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation,…

onsumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. Sharp. A long consumptive war. Addison.

The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

Holy meditation. [Obs.] To live in prayer and contemplation. Shak.

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.

Characterized by copses. "Copsy villages." "Copsy banks." J. Dyer.

The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] "A body of five cornets of horse." Clarendon.

To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls. Bacon.

er set And every crambo he could get. Swift. Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.

A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.

A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.