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A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

orm 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 tubercular disease.

Quarrel; contention; contest. [Obs.] Contek with bloody knife. Chaucer.

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. Milton. We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. Byron.

The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing. In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left. Reid. To have in contemplation, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.

on; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham.

vie; to quarrel; to fight. For never two such kingdoms did content Without much fall of blood. Shak. The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. Deut. ii. 9. In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor. Shak.

Opposition; resistance; hostility. [Obs.] Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, Controlment for controlment. Shak.

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

ry attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.

a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. There pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak.

A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.

Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate. He . . . with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. Milton.

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood…

re, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed onl…

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill.

, And spurred his steed to full career. Sir W. Scott. To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.