n. Benignant quality; kindliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance. ] 1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Friendship; concord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the consonancy of our youth. Shak.

Syn. -- Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Discord; dissonance. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Predominance; ascendency; authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fritinnire to twitter. ] A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Lack of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Indignation. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The body of lieutenants or subordinates. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Malignant. ] 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.
Syn. -- malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. The state of being a malignant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Oppugnant. ] The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. prenance, fr. prendre, prenre, penre, to take, L. prendere, prehendere. ] (Law) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Predominance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness. [ Obs. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. répugnance, L. repugnantia. ] The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the foes quietly cut their throats,
Without repugnancy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy; hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety; inconsistency. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Resonance. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. esquinancie, OF. squinance, esquinance. See Quinsy. ] 1. (Med.) The quinsy. See Quinsy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Squinancy berries, black currants; -- so called because used to cure the quinsy. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being stagnant. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Pref. sub + L. ordinans, p. pr. of ordinare. See Subordinate, a. ] Subordinacy; subordination. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Tenacies [ Cf. OF. tenace, LL. tenentia. See Tenant. ] (Law) (a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. (b) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another. Blount. Blackstone. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant. [ 1913 Webster ]