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Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson.

Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees. Cowley.

Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. There is another very, efficacious method for subding the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond.

Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. The bishop commanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy. Strype.

A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To do him wanton rites, whichcost them woe. Milton. To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.

A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.

Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

resistance. [They] do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.

es exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.

One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26.

A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.

inutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.

An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macualay.

Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.