Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology, having one or more regular series of slight and somewhat distant elevations differing in color from the rest of the surface, so as to resemble lines of stitching, as the elytra of certain beetles.

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  • In the first place there is a famous University called Pontneuse, whose Students ply their busness very notably; studying most part of the night, and are such notable disputants, they consute all that come that way after nine at night.

    The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675

  • But I thought cruisin '' round with her kind o 'frien'ly on the back seat, ye might git a sort of a token or a consute in general o' what widders is. "

    Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

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