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land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition. Macaulay. No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances. Hallam.

A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.

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

method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continenta…

The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British subjects, property, and merchandise subject to capture, and excluding Br…

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.

Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison.

The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.

Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.

or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

See Edentate, a. -- n. (Zoöl.)

See Edentate, a.

and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.