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Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

e the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused. Milton. Kind, connubial tenderness. Goldsmith.

signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions. Adam Smith.

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

e bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

taining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

guous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

any object; to assist. These men also contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom. Goldsmith.

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.

ispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

d by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

f treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.

d Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.