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Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows link by necessary consequence. Coleridge.

In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously.

congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall.

ject being to strike a blow at the maritime and commercial supremacy of Great Britain, by cutting her off from all intercourse with the continent of Europe.

ontrol. The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.

A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.

ssembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics. The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or…

of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of muscula…

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle. [Obs.]

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.

See Chord. [Obs.] Cord wood, wood for fuel cut to the length of four feet (when of full measure).

ressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.

y cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus prevent the disease from spreading.

k of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

s one's self; stiffness. [Obs.] A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield.

An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.