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n's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.

The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

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.

dotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

p. He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

f- knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation. Whewell.

suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.

ough it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible. Clerk Maxwell.

system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. Clerk Maxwell.

ce of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell.

one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

th consists with temperance alone. Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

Having like sounds. Consonant words and syllables. Howell.

o compose. [Obs.] The operation of the masculine faculties of the soul were, for a while, well slacked and consopited. Dr. H. More.

tner; especially, a wife or husband. Milton. 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.

the parts of anything; structure; arrangement. An astrolabe of peculiar construction. Whewell.

ry. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. Howell.

Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.