Acontia :: Acontia (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated..

Acontias :: Acontias (n.) Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards..

Anticontagious :: Anticontagious (a.) Opposing or destroying contagion.

Contabescent :: Contabescent (a.) Wasting away gradually.

Contact :: Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

Contact :: Contact (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction..

Contact :: Contact (n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

Contaction :: Contaction (n.) Act of touching.

Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact..

Contagion :: Contagion (n.) 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..

Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm..

Contagion :: Contagion (n.) Venom; poison.

Contagioned :: Contagioned (a.) Affected by contagion.

Contagionist :: Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever..

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease..

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air..

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.

Contagiously :: Contagiously (adv.) In a contagious manner.

Contagiousness :: Contagiousness (n.) Quality of being contagious.

Contagium :: Contagium (n.) Contagion; contagious matter.

Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks..

Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

Contain :: Contain (v. i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Containable :: Containable (a.) Capable of being contained or comprised.

Containant :: Containant (n.) A container.

Contained :: Contained (imp. & p. p.) of Contai.

Container :: Container (n.) One who, or that which, contains..

Containing :: Containing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contai.

Containment :: Containment (n.) That which is contained; the extent; the substance.

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