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ne, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison. [Obs.] Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford. Hocker.

Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.

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

(Geol.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.

ngs. [Obs.] From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. Cheyne.

To join together; to unite. The English army, that divided was Into two parties, is now conjoined in one. Shak. If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined. Shak. Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already. Locke.

United; connected; associated. "Influence conjoint." Glover. Conjoint degrees (Mus.), two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson. Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also wr…

Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.]

Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves. Sir T. Browne.

The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together. Johnson.

common nature or character. [R.] Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness. H. Spencer.

ing, business, or affair. Connecting rod (Mach.), a rod or bar joined to, and connecting, two or more moving parts; esp. a rod connecting a crank wrist with a beam, crosshead, piston rod, or piston, as in a steam engine.

joins together; bond; tie. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things. I. Taylor.

A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.

Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind suceeding one another without interruption.