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etween Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. Sir W. Raleigh.

The act of leading or guiding. Sir W. Raleigh.

lique or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. -- Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor. [Obs.] Bacon. Happy confiners you of other lands, That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands. Daniel.

s to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. Prior.

A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and co

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

cord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.

In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.…

Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke.

fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment. Shak.

ng th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh.

Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.

to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson.

One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

y tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

he center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a ssquare. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

ater works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.