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t effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak.

Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome. Despotic and contentious temper. Macaulay.

Discontented; dissatisfied. [R.] Shak.

In a contented manner. [Obs.]

The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6.

See Content, n.

Counter tenor; contralto.

Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).

The state of being coördinate; equality of rank or authority.

Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.

A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.

ession of the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed His countenance. Milton.

One who countenances, favors, or supports.

One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

See under Tennis.

An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.

Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale.

Relating to the Ctenoidei. -- n.

A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.