Continuance (n.) A holding together; continuity.
Continuance (n.) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
Continuance (n.) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
Continuant (a.) Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.
Continuant (n.) A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.
Continuate (a.) Immediately united together; intimately connected.
Continuate (a.) Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued.
Continuation (n.) That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
Continuation (n.) That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.
Continuative (n.) A term or expression denoting continuance.
Continuative (n.) A word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction.
Continuator (n.) One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.
Continued (imp. & p. p.) of Continue
Continuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Continue
Continue (v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Continue (v. i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.
Continue (v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.
Continue (v. t.) To unite; to connect.
Continue (v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
Continue (v. t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.
Continue (v. t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.
Continued (p. p. & a.) Having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story.
Continuedly (adv.) Continuously.
Continuer (n.) One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence.
Continuities (pl. ) of Continuity
Continuity (n.) the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.
Continuo (n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass.
Continuous (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.
Continuous (a.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
Continuously (adv.) In a continuous maner; without interruption.
Contline (n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.
Contline (n.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.
Contorniate (n.) Alt. of Contorniate
Contorniate (n.) A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.
Contorsion (n.) See Contortion.
Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.
Contorted (a.) Twisted, or twisted together.
Contorted (a.) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
Contorted (a.) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation.
Contortion (n.) A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.
Contertionist (n.) One who makes or practices contortions.
Contortive (a.) Expressing contortion.
Contortuplicate (a.) Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory.
Contour (n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.
Contourne' (a.) Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like.
Contourniated (a.) Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.
Contra () A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.
Contraband (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Contraband (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
Contraband (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
Contraband (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
Contraband (v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
Contraband (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
Contrabandism (n.) Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.
Contrabandist (n.) One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
Contrabass (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.
Contrabasso (n.) The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.
Contracted (imp. & p. p.) of Contract
Contracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contract
Contract (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
Contract (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Contract (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
Contract (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
Contract (n.) To betroth; to affiance.
Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
Contract (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
Contract (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
Contract (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
Contract (n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
Contract (n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
Contract (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
Contracted (a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
Contracted (a.) Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
Contracted (a.) Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
Contractedness (n.) The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
Contractibility (n.) Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
Contractible (a.) Capable of contraction.
Contractibleness (n.) Contractibility.
Contractile (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
Contractility (n.) The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.
Contraction (n.) The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
Contraction (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
Contraction (n.) A marriage contract.
Contractive (a.) Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
Contractor (n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
Contracture (n.) A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
Contradance (n.) A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
Contradicted (imp. & p. p.) of Contradict
Contradicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contradict
Contradict (v. t.) To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
Contradict (v. t.) To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
Contradict (v. i.) To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.
Contradictable (a.) Capable of being contradicting.
Contradicter (n.) one who contradicts.