Available Definitions:
1) a. - Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
2) a. - Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
3) a. - Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
4) a. - Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
5) a. - That which contains anything; a receptacle.
6) a. - One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.