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early all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phras…

united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.

The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement. An astrolabe of peculiar construction. Whewell.

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

. . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange.

nges and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party. L'Estrange.

Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture. That wonderful contexture of all created beings. Dryden. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.…

Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. [R.] Carlyle.

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.

Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute æstivation.

, n. (Mus.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the cotrabass tuba or bombardon.

A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

one who, or that which, is inconsistent. can be make deathless death That were to make Strange contradiction. Milton. We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. Burke. Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the sl…

A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

vented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.] Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.

Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange. Macaulay.

The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.