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he dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

Anything which serves to compress; as:

sion; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right. I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them. Lamb.

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. "Any conceivable weight." Bp. Wilkins. It is not conceivable that it should be indeed that very person whose shape and voice it assumed. Atterbury. -- Con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Con*ceiv"a*bly, adv.

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [Obs.] Woodward.

tion, apprehension. Conception consists 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.

ance have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

Concern; participation; interposition. He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon.

ciliated. The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America. Burke.

-- sometimes followed by a dependent clause. No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him. Tillotson. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith. Rom. iii. 28.

The last part of anything; close; termination; end. A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest. Prescott.

ference which the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.

ke up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.

ch a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument. [Obs.] Although thou been conduct of my chame. Shak.

e of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.…

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.