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State or quality of being conical.

Pertaining to a conoid; having the form of a conoid.

Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. "Conventical wages." Sterne. Conventical prior. See Prior.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

ing of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.

Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.

With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone.

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

Having the character of a cosmopolite. [R.] Hackluyt.

r relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] "Art of numbers cossical." Digges (1579).

A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.

Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [Obs.] Howell.

ke a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

Coxcombical. [R.]

Conceitedly. [R.]

Of or pertaining to craniology.