noun

1. one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America,Australia, and Antarctica).
2. a comparable landmass on another planet.
3. the mainland, as distinguished from islands or peninsulas.
4. the Continent, the mainland of Europe, as distinguished from theBritish Isles.
5. a continuous tract or extent, as of land.
6. Archaic. something that serves as a container or boundary.

   

   

adjective

• 7. exercising or characterised by restraint in relation to the desires or passions and especially to sexual desires; temperate.
• 8. able to control urinary and fecal discharge.
• 9. Obsolete. containing; being a container; capacious.
• 10. Obsolete. restraining or restrictive.
• 11. Obsolete. continuous; forming an uninterrupted tract, as land.