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The product of corruption; putrid matter.

A train of attendants; a procession.

he physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of…

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

ly Cotingidæ, including numerous bright- colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.

To go on prosperously; to succeed. [Obs.] New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would Lyly.

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

n assembly of prelates or divines convened from the whole body of the church to regulate matters of doctrine or discipline. -- Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.] -- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called…

A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter. Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid. Gower.

To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count. Burrill.

istrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury.

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 bond to secu…

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods. [Eng.]

d to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.

To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey.

The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.

ing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.