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A walk or other exercise taken for one's health or constitution. [Colloq.] Thackeray. The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads. Compton Reade.

, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.

The jurisdiction or residence of a consul. Kent.

Hamilton. If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war. Kent.

A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for. All men seem agreed what is to be done; the contention is how the subject is to be divided and defined. Bagehot. This was my original contention, and I still main…

contains anything; a receptacle. [Obs.] The smaller continent which we call a pipkin. Bp. Kennet.

Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued. An untirable and continuate goodness. Shak.

break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow.

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

or assert the contrary of, something. They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts xiii. 45.

pposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me. Lev. xxvi. 21. We have lost our labor; they are gone a contrary way. Shak.

To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.

Thoroughly bruised or broken. [Obs.]

able of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

onverging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum will become indefinitely near in value to a fixed quantity, which is called the sum of the series; -- opposed to a diverging series.

t. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.

To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped." Holland.

An impression on paper taken from such a plate.

mitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.