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Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.]

To pollute; to defile. [Obs.] Cockeram.

This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.

Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.

To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.

An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

To convoke; to call together. [Obs.] May (Lucan).

An assembly or meeting. In the first day there shall be a holy convocation. Ex. xii. 16.

Of or pertaining to a convocation.

An advocate or defender of convocation.

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.

A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. [Obs.] Minsheu.

Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.

Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.

flash or play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle.

Having the same signification. Cockerham.

strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

That which causes damage or loss.