Search the Dictionary

To run together; to meet. [Obs.] Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates. J. Hughes.

The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke.

Meeting in one point.

Agreeing. Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.

One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.]

To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.] Saffron confected in Cilicia. W. Browne.

A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat. Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons. Bacon.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [Obs.] Beaumont.

A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.

Bonbons; sweetmeats; confections; also, plaster or paper imitations of, or substitutes for, bonbons, often used by carnival revelers, at weddings, etc.

fidence; Do not go forth to-day. Shak. But confidence then bore thee on secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial. Milton.

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide. Shak.

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.

To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

el; a large species of eel (Conger vulgaris), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet.

some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. Shak. To congratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate.

To come together; to assemble; to meet. Even there where merchants most do congregate. Shak.