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Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. Sir I. Newton. Concentrical rings like those of an onion. Arbuthnot.

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

The act of burning different things together. [Obs.]

A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.

A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. Condensation product (Chem.), a s…

ze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

A composition of different materials. [Obs.] A new confection of mold. Bacon.

confession of faith. Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.

iver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury.…

ons takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

ony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character. That consistency…

To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.

ngly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury.

A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

, as the number 10, or any numeral. -- Arbitrary constant, an undetermined constant in a differential equation having the same value during all changes in the values of the variables.

h or constitution. [Colloq.] Thackeray. The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads. Compton Reade.