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duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. Lord Stowell.

Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton.

To join in praising. [Obs.] Howell.

grate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.

l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants.

Compliments; greetings. [Obs.] Hearty commends and much endeared love to you. Howell.

An ailment or disease of the body. One in a complaint of his bowels. Arbuthnot.

hip; comradeship. [R.] "Certainly", said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker. W. D. Howells.

e; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [Obs.] Howell.

riety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris.

bedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. "This is enough in conscience." Howell. "Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require." Swift. -- To make conscience of, To make a matter of conscience, to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scr…

suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.

Having like sounds. Consonant words and syllables. Howell.

To change into, or use as, a consonant. "The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position." Peile.

A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness.

ever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. Howell.

Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.

A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continent…