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A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.

Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

The act of carrying in a cart.

Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

Rate by the hundred; percentage.

State of being client.

The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.

The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm. "The contagion of example." Eikon Basilike. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

Affected by contagion.

One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

icability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required.

In a contagious manner.

Quality of being contagious.

Contagion; contagious matter. "Contagium of measles." Tyndall.

Expense; cost. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small house; a cot; a hut.

Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.