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A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher. -- n.

he political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god. S. W. Williams.

A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

Joined together or touching.

A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] Bailey.

A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

Act of touching. [Obs.]

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

Contiguous; touching. [Obs.] Holland.

In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.…

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency." J. Gregory.

e; to add to or draw out in length. A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frall world. Milton.

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. -- Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum w…

aracter or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have converted. Latimer. A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. The public hope And eye to thee converting. Thomson.

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, whereit is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet.…

paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.