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See Scion. The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.

oing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. Wharton.…

To preach. [Obs.] Lithgow.

An haranguer of the people; a preacher.

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

Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just. Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. Sir H. Wotton.

The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness. Johnson.

Reasonably; justly.

A song of triumph. [Obs.] T. Warton.

Unconscionable. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Jurisdiction. [Obs.]

A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C.…

A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.

A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera.

Destruction; perdition. [Obs.] hudibras.

A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]

wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence. Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight. Bacon.

Not conscionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size. Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended. Milton. His giantship is…