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

Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [R.] A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.

Participation of the same nature; natural union. I. Walton.

Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke.

By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

rence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. Jer. Taylor. The same form, substance, and consistency. T. Burned.

Bp. Beveridge. That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More.

; conspiracy. [R.] As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a system or body; natural condition; structure; texture; conformation. The physical constitution of the sun. Sir J. Herschel.

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.

surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.

each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomens. Darwin.

To conceal; to include or involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L'Estrange.

. were well grounded." Clarendon. -- To keep the countenance, to preserve a composed or natural look, undisturbed by passion or emotion. Swift.

An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.

Customary or established sequence of evants; re currence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

ore basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.