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Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc. "Incongruous mixtures of opinions." I. Taylor. "Made up of incongruous parts." M…

One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

To thaw; to become liquid again. Tennyson.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

ice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

Grown to congenitally.

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation.

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver i…

Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

ving a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.