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

Incontinently :: Incontinently (adv.) In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites..

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

Lemuria :: Lemuria (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant..

Abstinent :: Abstinent (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate..

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

Continent :: Continent (a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever..

Trillion :: Trillion (n.) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..

Continently :: Continently (adv.) In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor..

Count :: Count (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl..

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..

Quadrillion :: Quadrillion (n.) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..

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..

Continental :: Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to a continent.

Continent :: Continent (a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.

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..

Travel :: Travel (v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent..

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..

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..

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