Definition of continent

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

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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..
Compass :: Compass (n.) A circle; a continent.
Continent :: Continent (a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Uncontinent :: Uncontinent (a.) Not continent; incontinent.
Centner :: Centner (n.) The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds..
Incontinently :: Incontinently (adv.) In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites..
Mammoth :: Mammoth (n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man..
Intercontinental :: Intercontinental (a.) Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce..
Continent :: Continent (a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
Unchaste :: Unchaste (a.) Not chaste; not continent; lewd.
Mainland :: Mainland (n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula..
Count :: Count (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl..
Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd..
Wealden :: Wealden (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series..
Burse :: Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse..
Continental :: Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to a continent.
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..
Continent :: Continent (a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever..
Incontinent :: Incontinent (n.) One who is unchaste.
Continent :: Continent (a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.
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