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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…

s, session, etc.; as, a continued story. "Continued woe." Jenyns. "Continued succession." Locke. Continued bass (Mus.), a bass continued through an entire piece of music, while the other parts of the harmony are indicated by figures beneath the bass; the same as thorough bass or figured bass; basso continuo. [It.] -- C…

opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.

ble with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.

An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.

ssion; agitation of contrary opinions. This left no room for controversy about the title. Locke. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Johnson.

To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke. The Parliament of Scotland now convened. Sir R. Baker. Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene. Thomson.

id of things. According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety. Locke.

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke.

he contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. Locke.

Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. [Obs.] A copatain hat made on a Flemish block. Gascoigne.

rposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke. Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman.

we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke.

ge], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. Locke.

re for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

Money; coin; -- used in contempt. [Obs.] To lock such rascal counters from his friends. Shak.

ridge or a scale beam. Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it. Locke.

ns. "A couple of weeks." Carlyle. Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple. Locke. [Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled. 2 Sam. xvi. 1.