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Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. -- n.

One who attends church.

Summoning to church. The sound of the churchgoing bell. Cowper.

A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.

Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. [Obs.]

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

See Coalgoose.

A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.

See Cundurango.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

Broken; uneven. [Obs.] "Confragose cataracts." Evelyn.

A group of artificial dyes with an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes.

An artificial red dye from which the Congo group received its name. It is also widely used either in aqueous solution or as test paper (Congo paper) for the detection of free acid, which turns it blue.

An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.

d less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea. Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." S. W. Williams.

Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.

The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]