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To know. See Can, and Con. [Obs.] Ye konnen thereon as much as any man. Chaucer.

See Conite.

A form of capsule for inclosing a dose of medicine that is offensive, caustic, or the like.

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.

ificant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. His distant friends, he beckons near. Dryden. It beckons you to go away with it. Shak.

See under Dead, a.

An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.

The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C10H5(OH)(NH2)SO3Na used as a developer.

Each one; every one. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.

To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. Swift.

An erroneous computation.

To exceed in reckoning or computation. Bp. Pearson.

To reckon too highly.

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.

The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:

See Sconce.

To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.