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A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrance.

An arthropod.

gled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or ver…

A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces.

chines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.

A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

See Conine.

The skunk.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

A rabbit. See Cony.

Familiar talk or conversation. [Colloq.]

k familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.

Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.

Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever.

One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.

A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

Fated or decreed with something else. [R.] A. Tucker.

To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.] Saffron confected in Cilicia. W. Browne.