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Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve.

A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.

A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper. Jer. Taylor.

and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.

, algæ, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf.

The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed. Dryden.

An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.

A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria.

Lacking art or skill; artless. Congreve. -- Un*art"ful*ly, adv. Swift. Burke.

at, or reached; inaccessible. [Colloq.] Addison. My honor is infallible and uncomeatable. Congreve.

Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. South.

Incongruous; inconsistent. "A thing unconsonant.' Hooker.

sed, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.

about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.

A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.

The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampère. It is practically equivalent to

attery. A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her. Congreve.

To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish. [R.] Congreve.

To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch. [R.] Congreve.