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n. [ Gr. &unr_; a kind of fish. ] (Zool.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cion. See Scion. ] See Scion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coercio, fr. coercere. See Coerce. ] 1. The act or process of coercing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. “Coactus volui” (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. concionatus, p. p. of concionari to adress. ] To preach. [ Obs. ] Lithgow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] 1. An haranguer of the people; a preacher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Old Law) A common councilman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Irregularly formed fr. conscience. ] Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Reasonably; justly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of sea trout.
Syn. -- genus Cynoscion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; belonging to victory; 'epi` upon, to + &unr_; victory: cf. L. epinicium. ] A song of triumph. [ Obs. ] T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unconscionable. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. internecio. ] Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Jurisdiction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'ostra`kion small shell. ] (Zool.) A genus of plectognath fishes of the family Ostraciontidae having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes (also called boxfish). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 2d Pernicious. ] Destruction; perdition. [ Obs. ] hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cion, F. scion, probably from scier to saw, fr. L. secare to cut. Cf. Section. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. (b) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [ Formerly written also cion, and cyon. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. [ Obs. or Low ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. suspecioun, OF. souspeçon, F. soupçon, L. suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio mistrust, suspicion. See Suspect, and cf. Suspicious. ] 1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Slight degree; suggestion; hint. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor. A. W. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not conscionable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; inordinate; extravagant; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen,
Stalking with less unconscionable strides. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience; that cannot be done in good conscience; as, unconscionable profits. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Ungenerous as well as unconscionable practices. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un*con"scion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*con"scion*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]