CONSUMER
CONSUMER, noun One who consumes, spends, wastes or destroys; that which consumes.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CONSUMING
CONSUMING, participle present tense1. Burning; wasting; destroying; expending; eating; devouring.2.adjective That destroys.The Lord thy God is a consuming fire. Deuteronomy 4:24.
CONSUMMATE
CONSUMMATE, verb transitive [Latin See Sum.] To end; to finish by completing what was intended; to perfect; to bring or carry to the utmost point or degree.He had a mind to cons...
CONSUMMATED
CONSUMMATED, participle passive Completed; perfected; ended.
CONSUMMATELY
CONSUMMATELY, adverb Completely; perfectly.
CONSUMMATING
CONSUMMATING, participle present tense Completing; accomplishing; perfecting.
CONSUMMATION
CONSUMMATION, noun [Latin]1. Completion; end; perfection of a word, process or scheme.2. The end or completion of the present system of things; the end of the world.3. Death; th...
CONSUMPTION
CONSUMPTION, noun [Latin See Consume.]1. The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time...
CONSUMPTIVE
CONSUMPTIVE, adjective1. Destructive; wasting; exhausting; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; as a long consumptive war.2. Affected with a consumption or pumonic d...
CONSUMPTIVELY
CONSUMPTIVELY, adverb In a way tending to consumption.
CONSUMPTIVENESS
CONSUMPTIVENESS, noun A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
CONTABULATE
CONTABULATE, verb transitive [Latin] To floor with boards.
CONTABULATION
CONTABULATION, noun The act of laying with boards, or of flooring.
CONTACT
CONTACT, noun [Latin, to touch. See Touch.] A touching; touch; close union or juncture of bodies. Two bodies come in contact when they meet without any sensible intervening spac...
CONTACTION
CONTACTION, noun The act of touching.
CONTAGION
CONTAGION, noun [Latin, to touch.]1. Literally, a touch or touching. Hence, the communication of a disease by contact, or the matter communicated. More generally, that subtil ma...
CONTAGIOUS
CONTAGIOUS, adjective1. Containing or generating contagion; catching; that may be communicated by contact, or by a subtil excreted matter; as a contagious disease.2. Poisonous; ...
CONTAGIOUSNESS
CONTAGIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being contagious.
CONTAIN
CONTAIN, verb transitive [Latin, to hold. See Tenet, Tenure.]1. To hold, as a vessel; as, the vessel contains a gallon. Hence, to have capacity; to be able to hold; applied to a...
CONTAINABLE
CONTAINABLE, adjective That may be contained, or comprised.
CONTAINED
CONTAINED, participle passive Held; comprehended; comprised; included; inclosed.
CONTAINING
CONTAINING, participle present tense Holding; having capacity to hold; comprehending; comprising; including; inclosing.
CONTAMINATE
CONTAMINATE, verb transitive [Latin, to defile.] To defile; to pollute; usually in a figurative sense; to sully; to tarnish; to taint. Lewdness contaminates character; cowardice...
CONTAMINATED
CONTAMINATED, participle passive Polluted; defiled; tarnished.
CONTAMINATING
CONTAMINATING, participle present tense Polluting; defiling; tarnishing.
CONTAMINATION
CONTAMINATION, noun The act of polluting; pollution; defilement; taint.
CONTECK
CONTECK, noun Quarrel; contention. [Not English.]