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Countess :: Countess (n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count..

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..

Main :: Main (v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland..

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

Majorat :: Majorat (a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

Incontinently :: Incontinently (adv.) Immediately; at once; forthwith.

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

#NAME? :: -ent () An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant..

Continental :: Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money..

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

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..

Stretch :: Stretch (v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles..

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or Old) Saxon..

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..

Chatterer :: Chatterer (n.) A bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird..

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

Mainland :: Mainland (n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula..

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

Zone :: Zone (n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth..

Buffalo :: Buffalo (n.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers..

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