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A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane. Math. Dict.

To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace.

the operation. Sir W. Hamilton. And, when the steam Which overflowed the soul had passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and can not be destroyed. Wordsworth. The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness. Froude.…

In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively.

or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect. They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. Sir J. Davies.

Conservative party in england; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical. We have always been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be called the Conservative, party. Quart. Rev. (1830). Conservative system (Mech.), a material sustem of such a nature that after t…

To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or con He binds in hains The droway prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with old. Dryden.

To waste away slowly. Therefore, let Renedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs. Shak.

A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercula…

In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.

Wasting away gradually. Darwin. - Con*ta*bes"cence, n.

cluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade. The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade. Burke.

(adv. In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.

will not hearken unto me. Lev. xxvi. 21. We have lost our labor; they are gone a contrary way. Shak.

To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey.

; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

ent dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper.

To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.] O, which way shall I first convert myself B. Jonson.

To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. [Obs.]