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state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to an…

Illegal or prohobited traffic. Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.

t. Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. Strype.

he subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. Johnson.

ccount, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

oversy about the title. Locke. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Johnson.

hange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay.

ulay. They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John viii. 9.

To prove guilty; to convinct. [Obs.] Which of you convinceth me of sin John viii. 46. Seek not to convince me of a crime Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon. Dryden.

A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson.

See Coupe. [Obs.] Johnson.

A covering for the head. [Obs.] Johnson.

ng or joining; union; conjunction. Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas. Johnson.

r sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily. -- Corn fly. (Zo…

The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.

a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson.

tic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. That noted corypheus [Dr. John Owen] of the Independent faction. South.

ced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantitty transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber.