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An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.

ference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. Bp. Burnet.

sistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

Condensed; compact; dense. [R.] The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley.

Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.

ly; taking the bull by the horns. Syn. -- braving, coping with, grappling, tackling. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet.

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.

To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

, a proposition consequent to other propositions. Consequent points, Consequent poles (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities.

ke. Conservation of areas (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times. -- Conservation of energy, or Conservation of force (Mech.), the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor dimin…

mposed or made up; -- followed by of. The land would consist of plains and valleys. T. Burnet.

ompact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. He fixed and consolidated the earth. T. Burnet.

A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

To compel; to force; to necessiate; to oblige. The love of Christ constraineth us. 2. Cor. v. 14. I was constrained to appeal unto CActs xxviii. 19.

That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenetment, or thing holden, as a certin quantity of land a Burrill.

ument adds to the pleasure of contesting with in, when there are hopes of victory. Bp. Burnet. Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest Pope.

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

; as, to convert water into ice. If the whole atmosphere were converted into water. T. Burnet. That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton.