conspissationt (kons pis ash on)

[L. con thickening, spi atio (n-), a ened: see cons pi ate.] The act of making thick or viscous; inspi ation. conspurcationt (kon-spėr-kā'shon), n. [ con spur care, pp. con spur cat us, defile, tensive) + spur care, defile.) The act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall. constable (kun's ta-bl), n. [Early mod. E. also cunstable; .. stances still appointed, their duties are almost entirely performed by the county police. And it was provided by an Act of 1872 that for the future no parish constable should be appointed unle the County Quarter Se ion or the Vestry should determine it to be nece ary. A. Fonblanque , Jr., How we are Governed, p. 69. Chief constable, high constable. See above, 2.-Parish constable, in England, a petty constable exercising his functions within a given parish. - Special constable, a person sworn to aid the constituted authorities, military or civil, in maintaining the public peace on occasions of exigency, as to quell a riot. To outrun the constable. (a) To escape from the subject in dispute when one's arguments are exhausted. S. Butler. (b) To live beyond one's means. In this latter sense also overrun the constable. [Colloq.] "Harkee, my girl, how far have you overrun the constable?" I told him that the debt amounted to eleven pounds, besides the expence of the writ. Smollett, Roderick Random, xxiii. Poor man! at th' election he threw, t'other day, All his victuals, and liquor, and money away; And some people think with such haste he began, That soon he the constable greatly outran. C. Anstey, New Bath Guide, vii. constablery (kun's ta-bl-ri), n.; pl. constableries (-riz). [ constable. Rom. of the Rose.-2. Same as con stabulary. [Rare in both senses constableship (kun's ta-bl-ship), n. [ stable + -e .] A female constable; the wife of a constable. [Rare.] Dame Herm engild, constable e of that place. Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 441.