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See Lionced.

lions heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross. [Written also leonced.]

A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.

Misconception. [Obs.]

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.

One who misconceives.

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.

e or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce. The miller was a stout carl for the nones. Chaucer. And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce. Shak. Nonce word, "a word apparently employed only for the nonce". Murray (New English Dict. )…

Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; - - said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

See Pencel.

Same as Pilon. [Texas]

er obtained from an expenditure of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in centimeters.

An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.

To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth. Bacon.

The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.

The act of preconcerting; preconcert. Dr. T. Dwight.

Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…