cont.
1 Americanabbreviation
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containing.
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contents.
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continent.
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continental.
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continue.
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continued.
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contra.
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contract.
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contraction.
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control.
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(in prescriptions) bruised.
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Etymology
Origin of cont.
From Latin contūsus cont. for def. 11
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In a newspaper in Chicago, where the heavyweight champ's wife has sued for divorce, appeared the following ad: "Not resp. for debts cont. by anyone but myself, Joe Louis Barrow, 550 E. 61st St."
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The Second Part of the Faerie Queene, cont. the 4, 5, and 6 bookes, vj_d_.
From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser
App.: cont. two epistles from the Armenian, etc. p.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
III.: pp. viii. + 9-222: Title, one leaf; Cont. to Vol.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
III.: pp. 1-345—Title, one leaf; Cont. of Vol.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
III.: pp. 1-466—Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Third Vol.;
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
IV.: pp. 1-426—Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Fourth Vol.;
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The full Titles are given in the Table of Cont. or in the heading of the Poems in Poetical Works, 1898, vol. i. pp. xviii., etc.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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