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place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. A. T. Hadley.

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing. A graceful comportment of their bodies. Cowley. Her serious and devout comportment. Addison.

ing many things; having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive definition. Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. Channing.

expose to suspicion. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. Motley.

r a single crop. [Ireland] Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle. Mozley & W.

at conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

o passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness. Bentley.

a focus; to concentrate the attention. (He) concentrated whole force at his own camp. Motley.

It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

Strife; contention. [Obs.] Bailey.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Bailey.

The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.] C. Kingsley.

which a party "puts himself upon the country," i.e., appeals to the verdict of a jury. Mozley & W. -- In conclusion. (a) Finally. (b) In short. -- To try conclusions, to make a trial or an experiment. Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep. Shak.

Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith.

ther sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.

ensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley.

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

laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.

hod of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham.

ed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that of a lens, or conversely. -- Cone pulley. See in the Vocabulary. -- Oblique or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. -- Eight cone. See Cone, 1.