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One who confers; one who converses. Johnson.

A confessional. [Obs.] Johnson.

Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and 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.

the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.

, two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson. Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also written conjunct.

The state or quality of being conjunctive. Johnson.

The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together. Johnson.

To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.

Of kin blood; related. [R.] Johnson.

The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness. Johnson.

Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence. The melodious consent of the birds. Holland. Such is the world's great harmony that springs From union, order, full consent of things. Pope.

adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. Jer. Taylor. The same form, substance, and consistency. T. Burn…

One who consoles or comforts. Johnson.

To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.

se; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. Johnson.

in a cause. Writ of consultation (Law), a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded.

And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

. [Obs.] The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. Johnson.

Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

e army continued to advance. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John viii. 31.