consulteur, n.m., counselor, adviser.

consumant, -e, adj., consuming, devouring, burning.

consumer, v.a., to consume; to destroy; to wear out or away; to squander, to waste, to spend. Le temps consume toutes choses; time wears out everything. Cette maladie le consume; that disease is wearing him to nothing.

se consumer, v.r., to decay, to waste away, to wear out; to ruin one’s self; to undermine one’s health; to waste one’s strength. Il se consume d’ennui; he is wasting away with weariness. Se — de douleur; to pine away with grief.

contabescence, n.f., (med.) consumption.

contabescent, -e, adj., (med.) consumptive.

contact (-takt), n.m., contact, connection, touch; (mining) nip (of the roof or wall).

contagieu-x, -se, adj., contagious, catching; infectious.

contagion, n.f., contagion, infection. — de mœurs; corruption of manners. La — du vice; the infection of vice.

*contaille, adj.f., floss. Soie —; floretta, refuse, floss-silk.