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A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

rs in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [U. S.]

s of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.] -- Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite photograph or portrait, one made by a c…

An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.

e of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.

One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.]

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

he common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.

Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.

k. England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad. Sir W. Temple.

f or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.

tution. [Colloq.] Thackeray. The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads. Compton Reade.

antities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.

instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.

A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.

nual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow.

a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

, for protection or guidance. When every morn my bosom glowed To watch the convoy on the road. Emerson.