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kia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.

A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.

Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne.

Of kin blood; related. [R.] Johnson.

Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Shak.

To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens. J. Barlow.

Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights. Hallam.

; to purpose; to intend. There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions. A. Hamilton. If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war. Kent.

Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. -- Continuous impost. See Impost.

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.

iction over the Abyssinian Church. Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.

Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chætodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.

ugh to corn one. [Colloq.] Corning house, a house or place where powder is corned or granulated.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.

One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke. Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman.

Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.