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See Content, n.

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

ting, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. You and love are still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.

vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex To be contents his natural desire. Pope. To be, or not to be: that is the question. Shak.

Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.

purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.

To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low…

evenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.

The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

ing with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

stream." Milton. To brim over (literally or figuratively), to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

rned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. -- To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

ided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.