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

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.

The act of growing together. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate.

that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.

One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.

Following as a matter of course. Blount.

Following by consequence; consequent; deducible. [R.] "Consectary impieties." Sir T. Browne.

A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence. Sir M. Hale.

Following in a train; suceeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

Drawing inference. [R.] Milton.

Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke.

Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequenment. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. Locke. These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale.…

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

The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding. A constriction of the parts inservient to speech. Grew.

does not go beyond the written text. Parsons. Construction of an equation (Math.), the drawing of such lines and figures as will represent geometrically the quantities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or re…

ltative. He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive, knowing act. Jer. Taylor.

kingdom. Graunt. Table of contents, or Contents, a table or list of topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be found: a summary.