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A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

dden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons (Law), dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.

One who conceals.

The state of being congealed. Dr. H.More.

er health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

Convalescent. [R.] He found the queen somewhat convalesced. J. Knox.

The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

Of or pertaining to convalescence.

In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.

Having coral; covered with coral.

A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.…

Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [Obs.] Howell.

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. Macaulay.

with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

e of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South.

Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.

Same as Dialectics. Plato placed his dialectic above all sciences. Liddell & Scott.

Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.