Definition of contain

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

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Essential :: Essential (a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil..
Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..
Fill :: Fill (a.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of..
Flapjack :: Flapjack (n.) A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.
Accusation :: Accusation (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge..
Oozy :: Oozy (a.) Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river..
Senary :: Senary (a.) Of six; belonging to six; containing six.
Enargite :: Enargite (n.) An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver..
Danalite :: Danalite (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur..
Juglandin :: "Juglandin (n.) An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye..
Flask :: Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc..
Cubical :: Cubical (a.) Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube..
Spondee :: Spondaical (a.) Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot..
Censor :: Censor (n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries..
Mountainous :: Mountainous (a.) Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss..
Coppery :: Coppery (a.) Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper..
Testimonial :: Testimonial (a.) Relating to, or containing, testimony..
Hemihedral :: Hemihedral (a.) Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron..
Annotatory :: Annotatory (a.) Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations.
Rebukeful :: Rebukeful (a.) Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke.
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