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, plan, hope. It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life. Gibbon. Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Is. lix. 13.

In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

aid or contribution of power or influence; coöperation. We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it. Rogers. An instinct that works us to its own purposes without our concurrence. Burke.

Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

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.

water, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.

That which depends upon guess; guesswork. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

iculties, temptatin, etc. By winning words to conquer hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. Milton.

A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] Bailey.

series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. Clerk Maxwell.

To estamate; to think; to regard; to view. Considered as plays, his works are absurd. Macaulay.

ncurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury.

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy. So will I in England work your grace's full content. Shak.

A framework or fabric, as of beams. Sir H. Wotton.

One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer. Sir T. Browne.

The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification. Contour feathers (Zoöl.), those feathers that form the general covering of a bird. -- Contour of ground (Surv.), the outline of the surface of ground with respect to its undulation, etc. -- Contour line (Topographical Suv.), the line in…

e per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.