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To hesitate. [Poetic & R.] Dryden.

ting, not every action, nor every person, is considerable enough to enter into the cloth. Dryden. A considerable sum of money. Prescott.

dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world. Sharp.

ive; reason. He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum. Dryden. Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. Macaulay.

art. The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. Dryden.

To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon.

o bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of…

. He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin.

ey. I am constant to my purposes. Shak. His gifts, his constant ourtship, nothing gained. Dryden. Onward the constant current sweeps. Longfellow.

; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden.

to chain; to bond or con He binds in hains The droway prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with old. Dryden.

raint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden.

rofess or belive the doctrine of consubstantion. The consubstantiating church and priest. Dryden.

rmination; decision. [Obs.] The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. Dryden.

cted with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden.

or to defend. You sit above, and see vain men below Contend for what you only can bestow. Dryden.

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.

say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden.

ew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. -- Solution of continuity. (Math.) See under Solution.…