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onnection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction. Continuatives . . . consolidate sentences into one continuous whole. Harris.

; conversely. Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise. Arbuthnot.

fs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as fringing reefs, when they border the land; barrier reefs, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; atolls, when they constitute separate islands,…

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.

el spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

Solid; gross; opaque. [Obs.] Holland.

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

etallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

ounter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Counter deed (Law), a secret writing which destroys, invalidates, or alters, a public deed. -- Counter distinction, contradistinction. [Obs.] -- Counter drain, a drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through. -- Counter…

sy title, a title assumed by a person, or popularly conceded to him, to which he has no valid claim; as, the courtesy title of Lord prefixed to the names of the younger sons of noblemen.

ything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.

A small cover; a lid. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A sick person; an invalid. [Obs.] Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater. Burton. Crank axle (Mach.), a driving axle formed with a crank or cranks, as in some kinds of locomotives. -- Crank pin (Mach.), the cylindrical piece which forms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or…

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

henol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids.

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.

A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.