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A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.

One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.

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

A succession or series of any kind. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.

cessive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

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

The state or quality of being consecutive.

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

, v. t. To cut across or through; to intersect.

Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n.

A single cut with a knife.

To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.

Utterance by speech. [R.] [Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. Milton.

Pertaining to elocution.

One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

Pertaining to oratorical expression. [Obs.] Feltham.

, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called…

Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign. Young.

Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project. [R.]

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.