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An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

n resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products. -- Surface condensatio…

Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. Blackstone.

e recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. -- In conscience, In all conscience, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. "This is enough in conscience." Howell. "Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should requir…

ng consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords.

constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.

legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone.

ibit 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.

Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. Blackstone.

eing found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone.

All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

nant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone.

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.

ll bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. Brain coral, or Brain stone coral. See under Brain. -- Chain coral. See under Chain. -- Coral animal (Zoöl.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects. -- Coral fish. See in the Vocabulary. -…

A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.

Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.

her services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.