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Continent :: Continent (a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste..

Archiater :: Archiater (n.) Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities..

Incontinency :: Incontinency (n.) Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness..

Abstinent :: Abstinent (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate..

Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations.

Island :: Island (n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent..

Intercontinental :: Intercontinental (a.) Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce..

Continental :: Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition..

Compass :: Compass (n.) A circle; a continent.

Isthmus :: Isthmus (n.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc..

Lemuria :: Lemuria (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant..

Mullet :: Mullet (n.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe, and M. cephalus which occurs both on the European and American coasts..

Centner :: Centner (n.) The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds..

Of :: Of (prep.) Denoting identity or equivalence; -- used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba..

Quintilllion :: Quintilllion (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..

Travel :: Travel (v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent..

Continent :: Continent (a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.

Encratite :: Encratite (n.) One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent..

Skink :: Skink (n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents..

League :: League (n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each..

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