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Con*ta"gious*ness, n. Quality
of being contagious.

||Con*ta"gi*um (?), n. [L.]
Contagion; contagious matter. "Contagium of
measles." Tyndall.

Con*tain" (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Contained (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Containing.] [OE. contenen,
conteinen, F. contenir, fr. L. continere,
-tentum; con- + tenere to hold. See
Tenable, and cf. Countenance.] 1.
To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to
inclose; to hold.

Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not
contain thee; how much less this house!

2 Chron. vi. 18.

When that this body did contain a
spirit.

Shak.

What thy stores contain bring forth.

Milton.

2. To have capacity for; to be able to
hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains
four pecks.

3. To put constraint upon; to restrain;
to confine; to keep within bounds. [Obs., exept as used
reflexively.


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