conto (kon to)

[Pg., a million, also a story, tale, lit. an account, a count, = E. count1, n.] A Portuguese money of account, in which large sums are calculated, equal to 1,000,000 reis, or $1,080. A conto of contos is a million contos. In Brazil, owing to the smaller value of the milreis, the conto is equal Con top us (kon'tō-pus), n. [NL., of small clamatorial birds, of the family Tyran nid a, characterized, among the little tyrant flycatchers, by their extremely small feet. The common wood-pewee of North Amer ica, C. virens, is the type. The genus also contains the northern flycatcher (C. borealis ), Coues's flycatcher (C. pertinax), and other species, chiefly of the warmer parts of America. contorniate (kon-tor'ni-at), a. and n. [Also Wood-pewee ( Con top us virens). IMG:content-1182.jpg:[blocks in formation] circular fur row. They bear on one face a head (of Nero, Trajan, etc.), and on the other a subject generally relating to the games in Obverse. the circus or am phi theater. They were doubtle is sued at Rome in ture.] To twist, draw, bend, or wrench out of shape; make crooked or deformed. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted . The olive-trees in Provence are Ray . neither so tall, so stout, nor so richly contorted as. beyond the Alps. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 168. contorted (kon-tôr'ted), p. a. [Pp. of contort, v.] Twisted; drawn awry; distorted; twisted on itself: in bot., usually the same as convolute, with reference to estivation.