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, the tool carriage of an engine lathe. -- Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). -- Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-…

Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth.

Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. [Obs.] -- n.

annot conceive nor name thee! Shak. You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all. Coleridge.

Same as Conchometry.

Of the same color; of uniform color. [R.] "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.

Of the same color throughout.

To create at the same time. If God did concreate grace with Adam. Jer. Taylor.

solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. When outward causes concur. Jer. Colier.

Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

To lament or grieve over. [R.] I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. Milton.

Same as Leader. Prime conductor (Elec.), the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity.

onfectioner. [Obs.] He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. 1 Sam. viii. 13.

Same as Confiture. [Obs.]

Same as Conferee.

onfirmed by exercise. Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. Shak. Annd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. Ps. cv. 10.

Same as Comfit. [Obs.]

Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.