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A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.

A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

Affected by contagion.

One who belongs to a convention or assembly.

Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. [Obs.] Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.

A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects. Gray. These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card assemblies. A. Drummond.

A stone for coping. See Coping.

A cobblestone. [Obs.]

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

A colonel. [Obs.] Spenser.

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred. [In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner.]

gnty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.

An old woman; -- usually in contempt. But still the crone was constant to her note. Dryden.

The iron head of a tilting spear.

The coronet of a horse.

See Harmotome, and Staurotide.