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

adv. Reasonably; justly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See Conscience. ] 1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

With conscious terrors vex me round. Milton.

Syn. -- Aware; apprised; sensible; felt; known. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or “ego” of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

And, when the steam
Which overflowed the soul had passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left.
. . . images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and can not be destroyed. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

‖n.;pl. Fasciolæ [ See Fasciole. ] (Anat.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fasciola a little bandage. See Fascia. ] (Zool.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Unconscious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Loose; lascivious. [ Obs. ] “To depaint lascious wantonness.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush, Lusty. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. [ 1913 Webster ]

And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cloying; fulsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. [ R. ] Steele.

-- Lus"cious*ly, adv. -- Lus"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. multiscius; multus much + scius knowing, fr. scire to know. ] Having much or varied knowledge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. omniscius. See Omniscient. ] All-knowing. [ Obs. ] Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively luscious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praescius; prae before + scius knowing, fr. scire to know. ] Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sciagraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sciolist. ] The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sciolus. See Sciolous. ] One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer. [ 1913 Webster ]

These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

A master were lauded and sciolists shent. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scilus, dim. of scius knowing, fr. scire to know. See Science. ] Knowing superficially or imperfectly. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; &unr_; a shadow + &unr_; battle: cf. F. sciomachie, sciamachie. ] A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [ Written also scimachy. ] Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a shadow + -mancy: cf. F. sciomance, sciamancie. ] Divination by means of shadows. [ 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 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; shadow + &unr_; belonging to sight: cf. F. scioptique. See Optic. ] (Opt.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scioptic ball (Opt.), the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Scioptic. ] A kind of magic lantern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Opt.) Scioptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the island Scio (Chio or Chios). -- n. A native or inhabitant of Scio. [ Written also Chiot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. sciothericon a sundial. See Sciatheric. ] Of or pertaining to a sundial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sciotheric telescope (Dialing), an instrument consisting of a horizontal dial, with a telescope attached to it, used for determining the time, whether of day or night. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scius. ] Knowing; having knowledge. “Brutes may be and are scious.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. “My self-conscious worth.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being self-conscious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Partially conscious; feebly conscious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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 ]

a. 1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; resulting from neural activity of which a person is not aware; as, an unconscious movement; unconscious cerebration. “Unconscious causes.” Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult. [ PJC ]

-- Un*con"scious*ly, adv. -- Un*con"scious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]