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nd made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type. [Written also pinakone.]

One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid. [Written also quindekone.]

A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.] [Scot.] Burns.

A division of calcareous sponges.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

To end in, or come to, a sharp point. "Acuminating in a cone of prelacy." Milton.

ica. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.

us to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive. Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. Falconer.

he nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n.

g flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.

other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in…

lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

The coneflower, or yellow daisy (Rudbeckia hirta).

Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. "A bluff or bold shore." Falconer. Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. Judd.