Definition of continent

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

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Unchaste :: Unchaste (a.) Not chaste; not continent; lewd.
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..
Ancient :: Ancient (a.) Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent..
Continent :: Continent (a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever..
Pintail :: Pintail (n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon..
Chaste :: Chaste (a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
Abstinent :: Abstinent (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate..
Continently :: Continently (adv.) In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.
Mainland :: Mainland (n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula..
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..
Travel :: Travel (v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent..
Transcontinental :: Transcontinental (a.) Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey..
Burse :: Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse..
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..
Uncontinent :: Uncontinent (a.) Not continent; incontinent.
Continental :: Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money..
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..
American :: American (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians..
Continental :: Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to a continent.
Vivandiere :: Vivandiere (n.) In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler..
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