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An act of condescension. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

such a union would conduce to the happiness of both. Macaulay. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood. Shak.

riangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.…

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

A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison. [Obs.] Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford. Hocker.

Giving occasion for confidence. [R.] The cause was more confident than the event was prosperious. Jer. Taylor.

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

The state of being congealed. Dr. H.More.

Similarity of origin; affinity. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount Blackmore.

Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.]

A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together. Johnson.

Connection by birth; natural union. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

siness, or affair. Connecting rod (Mach.), a rod or bar joined to, and connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.

together; bond; tie. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things. I. Taylor.

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

tion of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.