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A plan of distributing surplus by giving to each policy the excess of premiums and interest earned thereon over the expenses of management, cost of insurance, and the policy value at the date of computation. This excess is called the contribution of the policy.

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.

Contributing, or tending to contribute. Fuller.

One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.

Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive. Milton. Bonfires of contributory wood. Chapman. Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured party, which combines with the negligence of the injurer in…

Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.

Having convolutions. beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. Pennant.

ing upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats. Thomson.

The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).

A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Ravenous; voracious. Cormorant, devouring time. Shak.

A cornemuse. [Obs.]

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold. [Obs.] Burton.

Cuckolded. [R.] "My being cornuted." LEstrange.

A man that wears the horns; a cuckold. [R.] Shak.

A cuckold maker. [R.] Jordan.

marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

A knife; a dagger.

as able; knew or known; understood. [Obs.] Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all thing couth, As he had it of God's grace. Gower.