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See Cloche. Bering Sea Controversy
Bering Sea Controversy Be"ring Sea Controversy
A controversy (1886 -- 93) between Great Britain and the
United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by
the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea,
over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare
clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893,
decided against the claim of the United States, but
established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal.
Board of controlControl Con*trol", n. [F. contr[^o]le a counter register,
contr. fr. contr-r[^o]le; contre (L. contra) + r[^o]le roll,
catalogue. See Counter and Roll, and cf. Counterroll.]
1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or
check another account or register; a counter register.
[Obs.] --Johnson.
2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
restraint. ``Speak without control.' --Dryden.
3. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or
regulating influence; superintendence; government; as,
children should be under parental control.
The House of Commons should exercise a control over
all the departments of the executive administration.
--Macaulay.
Board of control. See under Board. Compound control
Compound control Com"pound con*trol" (A["e]ronautics)
A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a
rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in
different directions, of a single lever, etc.
Consensual contractConsensual Con*sen"su*al, a. [See Consent, v. i., and cf.
Sensual.]
1. (Law) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or
more parties.
2. (Physiol.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or
reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as,
consensual motions.
Consensual contract (Law), a contract formed merely by
consent, as a marriage contract. ContraContra Con"tra
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
Contraband Con"tra*band, a.
Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as,
contraband goods, or trade.
The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure,
with the fair trade. --Burke.
ContrabandContraband Con"tra*band, n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando
ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict.]
1. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Persons the most bound in duty to prevent
contraband, and the most interested in the seizures.
--Burke.
2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
which is forbidden.
3. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered
contraband of war. [U.S.]
Contraband of war, that which, according to international
law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at
the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved
belligerent. --Wharton. Contraband of warContraband Con"tra*band, n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando
ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict.]
1. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Persons the most bound in duty to prevent
contraband, and the most interested in the seizures.
--Burke.
2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
which is forbidden.
3. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered
contraband of war. [U.S.]
Contraband of war, that which, according to international
law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at
the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved
belligerent. --Wharton. Contrabandist
Contrabandist Con"tra*band`ist, n.
One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
Contrabass
Contrabass Con`tra*bass", n. (Mus.)
The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family.
Contrabass
Contrabass Con`tra*bass", n. (Mus.)
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.
contrabassoBasso Bas"so, n. [It., fr. LL. bassus. See Base, a.] (Mus.)
(a) The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso.
(b) One who sings the lowest part.
(c) The double bass, or contrabasso.
Basso continuo. [It., bass continued.] (Mus.) A bass part
written out continuously, while the other parts of the
harmony are indicated by figures attached to the bass;
continued bass. ContrabassoContrabasso Con`tra*bas"so, n. [It. contrabasso.] (Mus.)
The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone. contractDependent De*pend"ent, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
dependere. See Depend, and cf. Dependant.]
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not
able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything,
without the will, power, or aid of something else; not
self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate;
-- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent
upon friends.
England, long dependent and degraded, was again a
power of the first rank. --Macaulay.
Dependent covenant or contract (Law), one not binding
until some connecting stipulation is performed.
Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose
changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by
changes in another variable, which is called the
independent variable. contractWager Wa"ger, n.
Wagering, or gambling, contract. A contract which is of
the nature of wager. Contracts of this nature include
various common forms of valid commercial contracts, as
contracts of insurance, contracts dealing in futures,
options, etc. Other wagering contracts and bets are now
generally made illegal by statute against betting and
gambling, and wagering has in many cases been made a
criminal offence. Wages Wa"ges, n. pl. (Theoretical
Economics)
The share of the annual product or national dividend which
goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration
received by capital in its various forms. This economic or
technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current
sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to
laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the
products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence
or management, which are earned by skill in directing the
work of others. Contract
Contract Con*tract", v. i.
1. 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.
Years contracting to a moment. --Wordsworth.
2. To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain;
as, to contract for carrying the mail.
Contract
Contract Con"tract, a.
Contracted; as, a contract verb. --Goodwin.
Contract
Contract Con*tract", a. [L. contractus, p. p.]
Contracted; affianced; betrothed. [Obs.] --Shak.
ContractContract Con"tract, n. [L. contractus, fr. contrahere: cf. F.
contrat, formerly also contract.]
1. (Law) 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.
--Wharton.
2. A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties,
with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof
of the obligation.
3. The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
This is the the night of the contract. --Longwellow.
Syn: Covenant; agreement; compact; stipulation; bargain;
arrangement; obligation. See Covenant. Contract system
Contract system Con"tract sys"tem
1. The sweating system.
2. The system of employing convicts by selling their labor
(to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per
day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the
prison to superintend the work.
Contract tablet
Contract tablet Con"tract tablet (Babylonian & Assyrian
Antiq.)
A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe
keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often
called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of
the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
Contracted
Contracted Con*tract"ed, a.
1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a
contracted brow; a contracted noun.
2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind;
contracted views.
3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
Inquire me out contracted bachelors. --Shak.
Contractedness
Contractedness Con*tract"ed*ness, n.
The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness;
selfishness.
Contractibility
Contractibility Con*tract`i*bil"i*ty, n.
Capability of being contracted; quality of being
contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of
air. --Arbuthnot.
Contractible
Contractible Con*tract"i*ble, a.
Capable of contraction.
Small air bladders distable and contractible.
--Arbuthnot.
Contractibleness
Contractibleness Con*tract"i*ble*ness, n.
Contractibility.
Contractile vacuoleVacuole Vac"u*ole, n. [L. vacuus empty: cf. F. vacuole.]
(Biol.)
A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of
organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery
liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell
protoplasm.
Contractile vacuole. (Zo["o]l.) See under Contractile,
and see Illusts. of Infusoria, and Lobosa.
Food vacuole. (Zo["o]l.) See under Food, and see Illust.
of Infusoria. Contractility
Contractility Con`trac*til"i*ty, n.
1. The quality or property by which bodies shrink or
contract.
2. (Physiol.) The power possessed by the fibers of living
muscle of contracting or shortening.
Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of
locomotion, such power is called voluntary
contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in
the muscles of the heart, it is involuntary
contractility.
Contractive
Contractive Con*tract"ive, a.
Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of
contracting.
Meaning of Contr from wikipedia
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heathenish corruption,
should be noted.'
Footnote 300 on
Contr. Her. .I.XXV.6. ANF.
Flavius Josephus writing (about 5
years later, c. AD...
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Contr. Bot. 3: 106. 1871. Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 19(109): 26. 1867. –
Contr. Bot. 3: 261(–262), t. 125. 1871...
- grandiflorus
Binomial name
Selenicereus grandiflorus (L.)
Britton & Rose, (1909)
Contr. US Nat. Herb. 2:430
Synonyms Cactus grandiflorus L. (1753) Sp. Pl. 467...
- 56: 45–58. doi:10.2307/4200384. ISSN 0021-0889. JSTOR 4200384. Joseph.
contr. Appion. lib. 1. c. 19.—Syncel. Chron. 220.—Euseb. Præp. Evan. lib. 9. Diodorus...
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Plain present Preterite Confusible lexical homonym?
Neutral Contr.
Negative Neutral Contr.
Negative will will 'll won't
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Talauma espinalii Loz.-
Contr. →
Magnolia espinalii Talauma georgii Loz.-
Contr. →
Magnolia georgii Talauma gilbertoi Loz.-
Contr. →
Magnolia gilbertoi Talauma...
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published volumes of the
Catalogue of New
World Gr****es (Poaceae)
published in
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. vols. 39, 41, 46, and 48. http://www.tropicos.org/Project/CNWG:...
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Guerrero state in
southwestern Mexico.
Mezcala balsensis (J.L.
Contr.) C.E.Hughes & J.L.
Contr.
Plants of the
World Online.
Retrieved 6
September 2023....
- as synonyms.
Peperomia niveopunctulata Trel.
Peperomia pilulifera Trel. "
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 26: 200 (1929)". powo.science.kew.org/. Trel. Retrieved...
- californica
Binomial name
Ruellia californica (Vasey & Rose) I.M.Johnst.
Synonyms Calophanes californica Vasey & Rose,
Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 85 (1890)...
