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Connection. See Connection.

See Connective.

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or co

eyes rapidly; to wink. [Obs.] The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye. Spectator.

Connivance. [Obs.]

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

One who connives.

or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

State of being a connoisseur.

To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply. Hammond.

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

Implying an attribute. See Connote. Connotative term, one which denotes a subject and implies an attribute. J. S. Mill.

In a connotative manner; expressing connotation.

e by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.

ng to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial. Nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused. Milton. Kind, connubial tenderness. Goldsmith.

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. Dickens.

A reckoning together. [R.] Porson.

See Cognizance. [Obs.]

See Cognizant. [Obs.]