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re the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. A. T. Hadley.…

wledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon.

ckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.

t; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise in his own conceit. Prov. xxvi. 12.

Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.] Bacon. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton.

A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [Obs.] Bacon.

; to close; to finish. I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state. Bacon.

on may be drawn. [Obs.] We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. Bacon.

To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] Bacon.

fference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall.

ulous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. Bacon.

seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon.

s a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others. Bacon.

A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon.

Conducive; tending; contributing. Bacon. All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.

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

ates. The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. Palfrey.

One who confesses to a priest. [Obs.] Bacon.

am. Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. Bacon.