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conspire; to join in a secret design. We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scence of miseries to the Trojans. Pope.

form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.

Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. Dryden.

Consistency; accord; congruity. [Obs.] There is no composition in these news That gives them credit. Shak.

ing, or comprising; inclusion. In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker.

ferent size, one within another. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. Sir I. Newton. Concentrical rings like those of an onion. Arbuthnot.

a close or secret assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

rials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

wo bodies. [Obs.] The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses. Sir I. Newton.

age . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay.

man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse Cowley. The new conditions of life. Darwin.

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

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

ong themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. Palfrey.

ading in which the party confesses the facts as stated by his adversary, but alleges some new matter by way of avoiding the legal effect claimed for them. Mozley & W. Confession of faith, a formulary containing the articles of faith; a creed. -- General confession, the confession of sins made by a number of persons in…

ffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.

To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor. Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. Pope. These likelihoods confirm her flight. Shak.

That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak.

gress water, a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.

e contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.