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nsider of your suit. Shak. 'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. Shak. She wished she had taken a moment to consider, before rushing down stairs. W. Black

A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier.

the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous exellence, or fault. A man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, eccesiastical, and literary history of England. Macaulay.

llences. The constellations of genius had already begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott.

An established law. [Obs.] T. Preston.

he constitution, as a permanent system of political and juridical government, as distinguished from statutory and common law, which relate to matters subordinate to such constitution.

by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

tion; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet consummation have, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. Years contracting to a moment. Wordsworth.

atement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak.

Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.

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

Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity. Faraday.

That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received…

te of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

Operating jointly to the same end. Coöperative society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. -- Coöperative store, a store established by…

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.

One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.