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legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone.

hibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.

Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. Blackstone.

being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone.

All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

enant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone.

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

all bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. Brain coral, or Brain stone coral. See under Brain. -- Chain coral. See under Chain. -- Coral animal (Zoöl.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects. -- Coral fish. See in the Vocabulary.…

A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.

Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.

nnual herbs sometimes used for salad. V. olitoria is also called lamb's lettuce. -- Corn stone, red limestone. [Prov. Eng.] -- Corn violet (Bot.), a species of Campanula. -- Corn weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) A small weevil which causes great injury to grain. (b) In America, a weevil (Sphenophorus zeæ) which attacks the stalk…

o buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensab…

under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

smitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone.

er the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.

Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone.

Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.

nd rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.

A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. Gwilt.