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Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. [Obs.] Crabb.

A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.

To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. Burke.

Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency. His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency. South.

Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. Milman - Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

e clearer are to be attained. I. Watts. Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them. Mark xv. 15.

Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued. An untirable and continuate goodness. Shak.

To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last. But now thy kingdom shall not continue. 1 Sam. xiii. 14.

ngenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.] Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.

A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus).

suming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.

The occupation of a cooper. Crabb.

The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

xtremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

e dust of Jacob Num. xxiii. 10. In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins. Macaulay.

r current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue. "Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle." I. Taylor. Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a…

Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

lly two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.