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To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton.

ly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute. Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval. Sir W. Hamilton.

er head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father. Addison.

To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern. Known by the name of uniformity; Where pyramids to pyramids relate And the whole fabric doth configurate. Jordan.

nected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund. -- Court of Conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. -- In conscience, In all conscience,…

enced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person. The advice of wise and conscientious men. Prescott.

Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt. With conscious terrors vex me round. Milton.

s and affections; -- in other words, the self- affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine. Sir W. Hamilton.

he larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc.

Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control. "Uncertain and contingent causes." Tillotson.

An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

To be convenient; to serve. [Obs.] When that is known and golden time convents. Shak.

l humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.

ous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral wood, a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath.

are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.