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w sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.

A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.

several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.

Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.

In the form of a cone.

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico- hemispherical; conico-subulate.

That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.

Cone-shaped; conical.

he collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.

Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

A cone.

, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

es, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

ch the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.

curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.