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A competitress.

A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

make up; elemental; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden.

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor.

One who constitutes or appoints.

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherene to a constitution or constitutional government. Carlyle.

One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.

The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.

In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid. The English were constitutionally humane. Hallam.

One who adheres to the constitution of the country. Bolingbroke.

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow.

In a constitutive manner.

A convert. [Obs.] Shak.

A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.

A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.

Inflammation of the bladder.

The shedding of teeth. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

cess of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.