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taining terms to be performed. 2. a. Having a certain state or qualities. [This word is usually preceded by some qualifying term.

ning to the earth or water, and protect the building from its effects.

CON-DITION-ING, ppr. Making terms or conditions.

CON-DUCTO-RY, a. Used or employed in conducting.
CON-DUCTRESS, n. A female who leads or directs; a di-

CON-DITION-LY, ade. On certain terms.

rectress.

CONDI-TO-RY, n. [L. conditorium, from condo, to hide.] A CONDUIT (kon'dit), n. [Fr. condi.d.] Literally, that which

repository for holding things.

CON-DOLA-TO-RY, a. Expressing condolence.

CON-DOLE, . i. [L. condolco.] To feel pain, or to grieve, at the distress or misfortunes of another; to sympathize.

leads or conducts. Hence, 1. In ancient architecture, a narrow passage, often under ground, between the apartments of a building. 2. A channel or pipe to convey water, &c., or to drain off filth.-3. Figuratively, any thing that conveys or conducts; as, "the conduits of my blood."-Shak.

CON-DOLE,at. To lament or bewail with another, or on account of another's misfortune. [Unusual.]

CON-DUPLICATE, a. [L. conduplicatus.) Doubled or fold.
ed over or together.
CON-DUPLICATE, at. To double; to fold together.
CON-DU'PLI-CA-TED, a. Doubled; folded together.
CON-DU-PLICATION, n. [L. conduplicatio.] A doubling,
a duplicate.

CON-DOLEMENT, a. Grief; pain of mind at another's loss or misfortune; sorrow; mourning.

CON-DOLENCE, Pain of mind, or grief excited by the distress or misfortune of another.-SYN. Sympathy; commi-eration; compassion.

CON DOLER. π. One who condoles.

CON-DOLING, ppr. Grieving at another's distress.
CON-DOLING, . Expression of grief for another's loss.
ΘΟΝΤΟ-ΜΑ, 2. An animal of the antelope kind, as large
as a stag, and of a gray coler.
CON-DO-NATION, n. [L. condono.] The act of pardoning.
[Little used.]

CONDOR, A large bird of the genus vultur, found in
the most elevated part of the Andes. It flies higher than
any other bird.

CON-DUCE, . i. [L. conduco.] To lead or tend to some
end or object; as, this conduces to health. In the transi-
tive sense, to conduct, it is not authorized.-SYN. To con-
tribute; forward; advance; promote.

CON-DUCEMENT, R. A leading or tending to; tendency.
-Gregory.

CON-DO CENT, a. Tending or contributing to.

CON-DU CI-BLE, a. [L. conducibilis.] Leading or tending to; having the power of conducing; having a tendency

to promote or forward.

CON-DUCI-BLE-NESS, n. The quality of leading or con-
tributing to any end.

CON DU CI-BLY, adv. In a manner to promote.
CON-DUCING, ppr. Tending or contributing.

CON-DECIVE, a. That may conduce or contribute; hav-
ing a tendency to promote.

CON-DU CIVE-NESS, 2. The quality of conducing or tending to promote.-Boyle.

CONDYLE (kon'dil), n. [L. condylus.] A protuberance on the end of a bone; a knot, or joint; a knuckle. CON'DYL-OID, a. (Gr. κονδυλος and είδος.] The condyloid process is the posterior protuberance at the extremities of the under jaw.

CONDYL-OID, n. The apophysis of a bone; the projecting soft end, or process of a bone.

CONDYL-OPE, (π. [Gr. κονδυλος and πους.] A general CON-DYL'O-POD, term applied by Cuvier to insects, crustacea, and spiders, in allusion to the fact that they have jointed feet.-Dana.

CONE, n. [Fr. cone; Gr. κωνος.] 1. A solid body or figure
having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a
point or vertex, like a sugar-loaf, 2. In botany, the conical
fruit of several evergreen trees, as of the pine, fir, cedar,
and cypress.

CONE-SHAPED (-shapt), a. Having the form of a cone.
ΘΟ-ΝΕΪΝE. See CONΙINA.

CONE-PATE,

CONE-PATL. n. The Mexican name of the skunk.

CO'NEY. See CONY.

CON-FABU-LATE, v. i. [L. confabulor.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. Cowper. [Little used.) CON-FAB-U-LATION, n. [L. confabulatio.] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation; familiarly abridged into confab.

CON-FABU-LA-TO-RY, a. Belonging to familiar talk. [Lit
tle used.]

ICON-FA-MILIAR (-fa-milyar), a. Very familiar.
CON-FAR-RE-ATION, n. [L. confarreatio.] The solemni-
zation of marriage among the Romans, by a ceremony in
which the bridegroom and bride tasted a cake made of
flour, with salt and water.

CONDUCT, n. [Sp. conducta.] 1. Literally, the act of lead-
ing: guidance; command; as, "conduct of armies is a
prince's art." 2. The act of convoying, or guarding; guid-
ance, or bringing along under protection.-Shak. 3. Guard
on the way: convoy; escort; as, "the king hath appoint-CON-FATED, a. Fated together.

ed this conduct to convey me to the tower." --Shak. [These
three senses are now chiefly disused, though not improper.]
4. In a general sense, personal behavior; course of ac-
tions; deportment; [applicable equally to a good or bad
course of actions.) 5. Exact behavior; regular life. Swift;
[unusual] 6. Management; mode of carrying on. 7.
The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at
Eton College in England.-SYN. Carriage; deportment;
behavior; demeanor; management.

CON-DUCT, D.L. [Sp. conducir.] 1. To lead; to bring along;
to guide; to accompany and show the way. 2. To lead;
to direct or point out the way. 3. To lead; to usher in;
to introduce; to attend in civility. 4. To give a direction
to; to manage; to direct; [applied to things; as, to con-
duct a negotiation. 5. To lead, as a commander; to di-
rect; to govern; to command. 6. With the reciprocal
pronoun, to conduct one's self, is to behave. Hence, by a
customary omission of the pronoun, to conduct, in an in-
transitice sense, is to behave; to direct personal actions.
7. To escort; to accompany and protect on the way.
CON-DUCTED, pp. Led; guided; directed; introduced;
commanded; managed.
CON-DUCT-I-BILT-TY, n. Capability of being conducted;
As, the conductibility of the electric fluid.
CON-DUCTING, ppr. or a. Leading; escorting; introdu-
cing; commanding; behaving; managing.
CON-DUCTION, a. 1. The act of training up; (obs.] 2.
Transmission by a conductor; as, the conduction of heat.
CON-DUC-TITIOUS (-tish'us), a. [L. conductitius.] Hired;
employed for wages.-Ayliffe.

CON-DUCTIVE, a. Directing; leading: managing.
CON-DUCTOR, n. 1. A leader; a guide; one who goes
before or accompanies, and shows the way. 2. A chief;
a commander; one who leads an army or a people. 3. A
director; a manager; a superintendent; as, the conductor
on a rail-road line. 4. In surgery, an instrument which
serves to direct the knife in cutting for the stone, and in
laying up sinuses and fistulas; also, a machine to secure a
fractured limb. 5. In physics, a substance which forms a
medium for the transmission of some other substance or
fruid, particularly of heat or electricity. Hence, 6. A me-
tallic rod, erected by buildings or in ships, to conduct light-

CON-FECT', v. 1. To make sweetmeats, See COMFIT. CONFECT, n. [L. confectus.] Something prepared with sugar or honey, as fruit, herbs, roots, and the like; a

sweetmeat,

CON-FECTED. pp. Made into sweetmeats,
CON-FECTING, ppr. Making into sweetmeats.
CON-FECTION, n. [L. confectio.] 1. Any thing prepared
with sugar, as fruit; a sweetmeat; something preserved.
2. A composition or mixture. 3. A soft electuary.
CON-FECTION-ER, n. One whose occupation is to make
or to sell sweetmeats, &c. [Confectionery for confectioner
is obsolete.]

CON-FECTION-ER-Y, n. 1. A place for sweetmeats; a
place where sweetmeats and similar things are made or
sold. 2. Sweetmeats in general; things prepared or sold
by a confectioner.

CON-FECTOR, n. [L.] An officer in the Roman games, whose business was to kill any beast that was danger

ous.

CON-FECTO-RY, a. Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats.

CON-FEDER-A-CY, n. [Low L. confederatio.] 1. A con-
tract between two or more persons, bodies of men, or
states, combined in support of each other, in some act or
enterprise; mutual engagement; federal compact. 2. The
persons, states, or nations united by a league.-3. In law,
a combination of two or more persons to commit an un-
lawful act.-SYN. League; covenant; compact; alliance;
combination; coalition; confederation.

CON-FEDER-ATE, a. [Low L. confederatus.) United in a
league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy.
CON-FEDER-ATE, n. One who is united with others in a
league; a person or Lation engaged in a confederacy; an
ally.-Dryden.

CON-FEDER-ATE, v. i. [Fr. confederer.] To unite in a
league to join in a mutual contract or covenant.
CON-FEDER-ATE, v. t. To unite in a league; to ally.
CON-FEDER-A-TED, pp. or a. United in a league.
CON-FEDER-A-TING, ppr. Uniting in a league.
CON-FED-ER-A'TION, n. [Fr. confederation.] 1. The act
of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual sup-
port; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states,

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2. The United States of America are sometimes called the | CON-FIDE', v. t. [L. confido.] To trust; to rely on, with a confederation.

CON-FER', v. i. [Fr. conferer.] To consult together; implying conversation on some serious or important subject; in distinction from mere talk, or light, familiar conversation.-SYN. To counsel or advise with; discourse; con

verse.

CON-FER', v. t. 1. To give or bestow; as, to confer favors; followed by on. 2. To compare; to examine by comparison; literally, to bring together; [obs.] [See COMPARE.] 3. To contribute; to conduce to; that is, to bring to; [obs.] CONFER-ENCE, n. [Fr. conference.] 1. The act of conversing on a serious subject; a discoursing between two or more for the purpose of instruction, consultation, or deliberation; formal discourse; oral discussion. 2. A meeting for consultation, discussion, or instruction. 3. Comparison; examination of things by comparison; [obs.] 4. A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committee, to adjust differences respecting bills, &c. 5. A stated meeting of preachers in the Wesleyan Methodist Church for the transaction of business.

CON-FERRED (kon-ferd), pp. Given; imparted; bestowed. CON-FERRER, n. One who confers; one who converses; one who bestows.

CON-FERRING, ppr. Conversing together; bestowing. CON-FERRING, n. 1. The act of bestowing. 2. Comparison; examination.

CON-FER-RU'MIN-A-TED, a. Sodered together.-Hooker. CON-FER'VA, n.; pl. CONFERVE. [L.] In botany, an extensive section of the Alge, consisting of tubular, jointed water-weeds.

CON-FESS', v. t. [Fr. confesser.] 1. To acknowledge, as a crime, a fault, a charge, a debt, or something that is against one's interest or reputation.-2. In the Roman Catholic Church, to acknowledge sins and faults to a priest; to disclose the state of the conscience to a priest, in private, with a view to absolution; sometimes with the reciprocal pronoun. 3. To acknowledge; publicly to declare a belief in and adherence to. 4. To acknowledge, as true disciples, friends, or children. 5. To acknowledge; to declare to be true; opposed to deny. 6. To show by the effect; as, this work confesses the hand of a master. 7. To hear or receive the confession of another.-SYN. Admit; grant; concede; avow; own; assent; recognize; prove; exhibit; attest.

CON-FESS', v. i. To make confession; to disclose faults, or the state of the conscience.

CON-FESSANT, n. One who confesses to a priest.
ICON-FESS'A-RY, n. One who makes a confession.

CON-FESS'ED (kon-fest), pp. or a. Owned; acknowledged; declared to be true; admitted in words; avowed; admitted to disclose to a priest.

CON-FESSED-LY, adv. 1. By confession or acknowledgment; avowedly; undeniably. 2. With avowed purpose. CON-FESSING, ppr. Owning; avowing; declaring to be true or real; granting or admitting by assent; receiving disclosure of sins, or the state of the conscience of another.

CON-FESSION (kon-fesh'un), n. 1. The acknowledgment of a crime or fault, or something to one's disadvantage; open declaration of guilt, failure, debt, accusation, &c. 2. Avowal; the act of acknowledging; profession. 3. The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest; the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor; sometimes called auricular confession. 4. Confession, or confession of faith, a formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed. 5. The acknowledgment of a debt by a debtor before a justice of the peace, &c., on which judgment is entered and execution issued.

CON-FES'SION-AL, n. The seat where a priest or confessor sits to hear confessions; a confession-chair. CON-FES'SION-A-RY, n. [Sp.confesionario.] A confessionchair, as above.

CON-FES'SION-A-RY, a. Pertaining to auricular confession. CON-FESSION-IST, n. One who makes a profession of faith-Montagu,

*CON-FESSOR, n. [Fr. confesseur; Sp. confesor.] 1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges his sins. 2. One who makes a profession of his faith in the Christian relig. ion. The word was applied in the early Church to one who avowed his religion in the face of danger, and adhered to it in defiance of persecution and torture. If death ensued, he was called a martyr.-3. In the Roman Catholic Church, a priest who hears the confessions of others, and has power to grant them absolution.

CON-FEST, pp. or a. for confessed. Owned; open; acknowledged; apparent; not disputed.

CON-FESTLY, adv. [for confessedly.) Avowedly; indisputably. [Little used

persuasion of faithfulness or veracity in the person trusted, or of the reality of a fact; to give credit to; to believe in, with assurance.

CON-FIDE', v. t. To intrust; to commit to the charge of, with a belief in the fidelity of the person intrusted; to deliver into possession of another.

CON-FIDED, pp. Intrusted; committed to the care of, for preservation, or for performance or exercise. CONFI-DENCE, n. [L. confidentia.] 1. A trusting or reliance; an assurance of mind or firm belief in the integrity, stability, or veracity of another, or in the truth and reality of a fact. 2. Belief in one's own competency, as opposed to diffidence or timidity. 3. That in which trust is placed; ground of trust; he or that which supports. 4. Safety, or assurance of safety; security; as, "Jehovah shall be thy confidence." 5. Boldness; courage. 6. Excessive boldness; assurance, proceeding from vanity or a false opinion of one's own abilities or excellences. - SYN. Trust; affiance; assurance; expectation; hope.

CON'FI-DENT, a. 1. Having full belief; trusting; relying; fully assured. 2. Positive; dogmatical; as, a confident talker. 3. Trusting; without suspicion. 4. Bold to a vice; having an excess of assurance.

CONFI-DENT, n. One intrusted with secrets; a confidential or bosom friend.--Mitford. [Commonly spelled confidant.]

CON-FI-DENTIAL, a. 1. Enjoying the confidence of another; trusty; that may be safely trusted. 2. That is to be treated or kept in confidence; private. 3. Admitted to special confidence.

CON-FI-DENTIAL-LY, adv. In confidence; in reliance on

secrecy.

CONFI-DENT-LY, adv. With firm trust; with strong assurance; without doubt or wavering of opinion; positively. CONFI-DENT-NESS, n. Confidence; the quality or state of having full reliance.

CON-FIDER, n. One who confides; one who intrusts to another.

CON-FIDING, ppr. or a. Trusting; reposing confidence. CON-FIGU-RATE, v. i. [L. configuro.] To show like the aspects of the planets toward each other. CON-FIG-U-RATION, n. [Fr.) 1. External form, figure, shape; the figure which bounds a body. 2. Relative position or aspects of the planets; or the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. 3. Resemblance of one figure to another. CON-FIGURE, v. t. [L. configuro.] To form; to dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. CON-FIGURED, pp. To dispose in a certain form. CON-FIGUR-ING, ppr. Forming to a figure. CON-FIN'A-BLE, a. That may be confined or limited. CONFINE, n. [L. confinis.] Border; edge; exterior part; the part of any territory which is at or near the end or extremity. It is used, generally, in the plural.

CONFINE, a. Bordering on; lying on the border; adjacent; having a common boundary. CONFINE, v. i. [Fr. confiner.] To border on; to touch the limit; to be adjacent or contiguous, as one territory, kingdom, or state to another; followed by on. CON-FINE', v. t. [Sp. confinar.] 1. To restrain within limits; hence, to shut up; to restrain from escape by force or insurmountable obstacles. 2. To keep close, by a voluntary act; to be much at home, or in retirement; as, to confine one's self to the house. 3. To limit or restrain voluntarily in some act or practice; as, to confine one's remarks to a particular point. 4. To tie or bind; to make fast or close. 5. To restrain by a moral force; as, to confine men by laws. --SYN. To bound; limit; restrain; circumscribe; restrict.

CON-FINED' (kon-find), pp. or a. Restrained within limits; imprisoned; limited; secluded; close; brought to bed. Sre CONFINEMENT.

CON-FINE'LESS, a. Boundless; unlimited; without end. CON-FINEMENT, n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity. 2. Voluntary restraint; seclusion. 3. Voluntary restraint in action or practice. 4. Restraint from going abroad by sickness, particularly by childbirth. CON-FINER, π. He or that which limits or restrains. CON'FIN-ER, n. 1. A borderer; one who lives on the confines or near the border of a country. 2. He or that which is near the limit; a near neighbor; he or that which is adjacent or contiguous.

CON-FINING, ppr. Restraining; limiting; imprisoning. ΕΟΝ-ΓΙΝΙ-ΤΥ, n. [L. confinitas.) Contiguity; nearness; neighborhood.-Dict.

CON-FI CIENT (kon-fish'ent), a. [L. conficiens.] That causes or procures.

*CONFI-DANT, n. m. One intrusted with secrets; a conCONFI-DANTE, n. f. fidential or bosom friend.

CON-FIRM', 2. 1. [L. confirmo.] 1. To make firm. or more firm; to add strength to, as to health. 2. To fix more firmly; to settle or establish; as, to confirm the courage. 3. To make firm or certain; to give new assurance of truth or certainty; to put past doubt; as, to confirm a report. 4. To fix; to radicate. 5. To strengthen; to ratify, as an agreement. 6. To make more firm; to strengthen, as an opinion. 7. To admit to the full privileges of a Christian, by the imposition of a bishop's hands.-8. In the government of the United States, to assent to, establish, or ratify; as, the Senate confirms or rejects the appointments proposed to them by the President of the United States-SYN. To strengthen; corroborate; establish; fix; settle; verify; assure.

CON-FIRM'A-BLE, a. That may be confirmed, established, or ratified; capable of being made more certain. CON-FIRM-ATION, n. 1. The act of confirming or establishing; a fixing, settling, establishing, or making more certain or firm; establishment. 2. The act of ratifying. 3. The act of giving new strength. 4. The act of giving new evidence. 5. That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.-6. In law, an assurance of title, by the conveyance of an estate or right in esse, from one man to another, by which a voidable estate is made sure or unavoidable, or a particular estate is increased, or a possession made perfect.-7. In church affairs, the act of ratifying the election of an archbishop or bishop, by the king, or by persons of his appointment. 8. The act or ceremony of laying on of a bishop's hands, in the admission of baptized persons to the enjoyment of Christian privileges. CON-FIRMA-TIVE, 4. Having the power of confirming; tending to establish. CON-FIRMA-TIVE-LY, adv. In a confirmative manner. CON-FIRM-ATOR, 2. He or that which confirms. CON-FIRMA TO-RY, a. 1. That serves to confirm; giving additional strength, force, or stability, or additional assurance or evidence. 2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.

CON-FIRMED (kon-fermd), pp. or a. 1. Made more firm; strengthened; established. 2. Admitted to the full privileges of the church.

CON-FIRMED-NESS, n. A fixed state.

CON-FIRM-EE', 2. One to whom any thing is confirmed.

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CON-FISCA-BLE, a. That may be confiscated; liable to forfeiture.- Browne.

*CON-FISCATE or CONFIS-CATE, v. t. [L. confisco.] Το adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury. CON-FIS'EATE or CONFIS-CATE, a. Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal. CON-FIS CA-TED or CONFIS-CA-TED, pp. or a

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judged to the public treasury, as forfeited goods or estate. CON-FISCA-TING or CONFIS-CA-TING, ppr. Adjudging to the public use.

CON-FIS CATION, 2. The act of condemning as forfeited,
and adjudging to the public treasury.
CONFIS-C1-TOR, n. One who confiscates.
CON-FISCA-TO-RY, a. Consigning to forfeiture.-Burke.
CONFIT, 2. A sweetmeat. See CONFECT.
CONFI-TENT, n. [L. confitens.) One who confesses his
sins and faults. [Not much used.)
CONFIT-URE, n. [Fr.) A sweetmeat; confection.-Bacon.
CON-FIX'. τ. τ. [L. conigo.] To fix down; to fasten.-Shak.
CON-FIX'ED (kon-fikst), pp. Fixed down or to; fastened.
CON-FIXING, ppr. Fixing to or on; fastening.

CON-FIXURE, R. The act of fastening.

CON-FLAGRANT, a. [L. conflagrans.) Burning together; involved in a common flame.

CON-FLA-GRATION, n. [L. conflagratio.] 1. A great fire, or the burning of any great mass of combustibles, as a house, but more especially a city or a forest. 2. The burning of the world at the consummation of things.

CON-FLAGRA-TIVE, a. Causing conflagration. CON-FLATION, n. [L. conflatio.) A blowing together, as of many instruments, in a concert; or of many fires, in melting metals. [Little used.) ICON-FLEXURE, 1. A bending.

CONFLICT, n. [L. conflictus.] 1. A striking or dashing agsinst each other, as of two moving bodies in opposition; violent collision of substances. 2. A contest or fighting between men, and applicable to individuals or to armies. 3. A struggling with difficulties; a striving to oppose or overcome. 4. A struggling of the mind; distress; anxiety. 5. The last struggle of life; agony. 6. Opposing operations: countervailing actions; as, a conflict between duty and inclination.-SYN. Collision; contest; struggle; combet; strife; contention; battle; fight; pang; agony. CON-FLICT, r. i. To strike or dash against; to meet and oppose, as bodies driven by violence. 2. To drive or strike against, as contending men or armies. 3. To strive or struggle to resist and overcome; as, to conflict with

difficulties. 4. To be in opposition, or contradictory, as, to conflict with a statement.-SYN. To fight; contend. contest; oppose; resist; struggle; combat. CON-FLICTING, ppr. 1. Striking or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome. 2. a. Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory. CON-FLICTIVE, a. Tending to conflict. CONFLU-ENCE, n. [L. confluentia.] 1. A flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams of water or other fluid; also, the place of meeting. 2. The running together of people; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; a crowd; a concourse. 3. A collection; meeting; assemblage.

CON'FLU-ENT, a. [L. confluens.] 1. Flowing together; meeting in their course, as two streams.-2. In medical science, running together, and spreading over a large surface of the body. 3. In botany, united at the base; growing in tufts; running into each other.

CONFLUX, n. [Low L. confluzio.] 1. A flowing together; a meeting of two or more currents of a fluid. 2. A collection; a crowd; a multitude collected.

CON-FLUX-I-BILT-TY, n. The tendency of fluids to run together. Boyle. [Little used.] CON-FORM', a. [L. conformis.] Made to resemble: assuming the same form; like; resembling.-Bacon. [Rare.] CON-FORM', v. t. [L. conformo.] 1. To make like, in external appearance; to reduce to a like shape, or form, with something else; with to; as, to conform any thing to a model. 2. More generally, to reduce to a likeness or correspondence in manners, opinions, or moral qualities; as, "Be not conformed to the world." 3. To make agree. able to; to square with a rule or directory; as, to conform ourselves to our instructions.

CON-FORM', v. i. To comply with, or yield to; to live or act according to. 2. To comply with; to obey. CON-FORM'A-BLE, a. 1. Correspondent; having the same or similar external form or shape; like; resembling. 2. Having the same or similar manners, opinions, or moral qualities. 3. Agreeable; suitable; consistent. 4. Compliant; ready to follow directions; submissive; obsequious; peaceable; disposed to obey. 5. In geology, when two sets of strata in contact are very nearly parallel to each other, they are said to be conformable.-Lyell. CON-FORM'A-BLY, adv. With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

CON-FORM-ATION, h. The manner in which a body is formed; the particular texture or structure of a body, or disposition of the parts which compose it; form; structure. 2. The act of conforming; the act of producing suitableness or conformity.-3. In medical science, the particular make or construction of the body peculiar to an individual.

CON-FORM'ED (kon-formd), pp. Made to resemble; reduced to a likeness of; made agreeable to; suited.

CON-FORMER, n. One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.

CON-FORMING, ppr. Reducing to a likeness; adapting; complying with.

CON-FORMIST, n. One who conforms or complies; ap. propriately, one who complies with the worship of the Church of England, or of the established church, as distinguished from a dissenter, or non-conformist.

CON-FORMI-TY, n. 1. Likeness; correspondence with a model in form or manner; resemblance; agreement. congruity with something else. 2. Consistency; agree ment.-3. In theology, correspondence in manners and principles; compliance with established customs. ICON-FOR-TATION, n. The act of comforting or giving strength.-Bacon.

CON-FOUND', v. t. [Fr. confondre.] 1. To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures can not be distinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals can not be distinguished. 2. To throw into disorder; as, to confound their language. Gen., xi. 3. To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another; as, to confound ideas with words. 4. To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words; as, to be confounded by a multiplicity of objects. 5. To throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed; as, Saul confounded the Jews at Damascus. 6. To perplex with terror: to throw into consternation; to stupefy with amazement; as, Satan stood confounded what to say."-Milton. 7. To destroy; to overthrow; as, "So deep a malice to confound the race of man."-Milton. SYN. To mix; mingle; blend; confuse; balile; abash; terrify; dismay; astonish; defeat.

CON-FOUNDED, pp. 1. Mixed or blended in disorder, perplexed; abashed; dismayed; put to shame and silence, astonished. 2. a. Very great; enormous; [vulgar.] CON-FOUNDED-LY, adv. Enormously; greatly; shame. fully. [A low word.

CON-FOUNDED-NESS, n. The state of being confounded,

-Milton.

CON-FOUNDER, n. One who confounds; one who disturbs the mind, perplexes, refutes, frustrates, and puts to shame or silence; one who terrifies.

CON-FOUNDING, ppr. Mixing and blending; putting into disorder; perplexing; disturbing the mind; abashing and putting to shame and silence; astonishing.

CON-FRA-TER'NI-TY, n. [It. confraternita. A brotherhood; a society or body of men, united for some purpose or in some profession.

CON-FRI-CATION, n. [It. confricazione.) Arubbing against;

friction.-Bacon.

CON-FRIER, n. [Fr. confrere.] One of the same religious

order.-Weever.

CON-FRONT (kon-frunt), v. t. [It. confrontare.] 1. Το stand face to face, in full view; to face; to stand in front. 2. To stand in direct opposition; to oppose; as, to con front his accusers. 3. To set face to face; to bring into the presence of, as an accused person and a witness, in court, for examination and discovery of the truth; followed by with. 4. To set together for comparison; to compare one thing with another.

CON-FRON-TATION, n. The act of bringing two persons into the presence of each other for examination and dis; covery of truth.

CON-FRONTED, pp. Set face to face, or in opposition; brought into the presence of. CON-FRONTING, ppr. Setting or standing face to face, or in opposition, or in presence of. CON-FRONTMENT, n. Comparison.-Oley.

CON-FUSE, v. t. [L. confusus. 1. To mix or blend things, so that they can not be distinguished. 2. To throw into disorder; as, the alarm confused the troops. 3. To perplex; to render indistinct; as, his ideas were confused, 4. To throw the mind into disorder; to agitate by surprise or shame; as, he was greatly confused by the tidings.SYN. To derange; disorder; abash; disconcert; confound; obscure; distract.

CON-FŪSE'. a. Mixed; confounded.-Barret. CON-FUSED (kon-füzd), pp. or a. 1. Blended, so that the things or persons mixed can not be distinguished. 2. Perplexed by disorder or want of system. 3. Put to the blush or to shame. SYN. Mixed; indiscriminate; indistinct; intricate; involved; deranged; disordered; tumultuous: abashed; agitated; disconcerted; cast down.

CON-FUSED-LY, adv. In a mixed mass; without order or separation; indistinctly; not clearly; tumultuously; with agitation of mind; without regularity or system. CON-FUSED-NESS, n. A state of being confused; want of order, distinction, or clearness. CON-FUSELY, adv. Obscurely.-Barret. CON-FŪSING, ppr. Mixing; confounding.

CON-FUSION (kon-fü'zhun), n. 1. A mixture of several things promiscuously; hence, disorder; irregularity. 2. Tumult; disturbance; want of order in society. 3. A blending or confounding: indistinct combination; opposed to distinctness or perspicuity. 4. Abashment; shame. 5. Astonishment; agitation; perturbation; distraction of mind. 6. Overthrow; defeat; ruin. 7. A shameful blending of natures; a shocking crime.

CON-FUTA-BLE, a. That may be confuted, disproved, or overthrown; that may be shown to be false, defective, or invalid.

CON-FŪTANT, n. One who confutes or undertakes to confute.-Milton.

CON-FU-TATION, n. The act of confuting, disproving, or proving to be false or invalid; refutation; overthrow.

CÔN-FUTE, v. t. [L. confuto.] 1. To prove to be false, defective, or invalid. 2. To prove to be wrong; to convict of error, by argument or proof.-SYN. To disprove; overthrow; set aside; refute; oppugn.

CON-FUTED, pp. Disproved; proved to be false, defective, or unsound; overthrown by argument, fact, or proof. CON-FŪTER, n. One who disproves or confutes. CON-FŪTING, ppr. Disproving; proving to be false, defective, or invalid; overthrowing by argument or proof. †CON-FUTEMENT, n. Confutation; disproof.-Milton. *CONGE (kon'jee), n. [Fr. congé.] 1. Leave; farewell; parting ceremony. 2. The act of respect performed at the parting of friends. Hence, the customary act of civility or other occasions; a bow or courtesy.

CONGE, v. i. To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.

CONGE D'E-LIRE (kon'zha-da-leer). In ecclesiastical affairs, the king's license or permission to a dean and chapter, to choose a bishop; or to an abbey or priory of his own foundation, to choose their abbot or prior.

CONGE, n. In architecture, a molding, in form of a quarter round, or a cavetto, which serves to separate two members from one another; an apophyge. Also, a ring or ferule, formerly used on the extremities of columns.

CON-GEAL' (kon-jeel'), r. t. [L. congelo.] 1. To change from a fluid to a solid state, by a loss of heat, as water in freezing, liquid metal or wax in cooling, blood in stagnating or

cooling, &c.; to harden into ice, or into a substance of less solidity. 2. Figuratively, to bind or fix with cold; as, his blood was congealed at the sight.

CON-GEAL', v. i. To grow hard, stiff, or thick from loss of heat; to pass from a fluid to a solid state; to concrete into a solid mass,

CON-GEAL'A-BLE, a. That may be congealed; capable of being converted from a fluid to a solid state. CON-GEAL'ED (kon-jeeld'), pp. or a. Converted into ice, or a solid mass, by the loss of heat, or other process; con creted.

CON-GEALED-NESS, n. State of being congealed. CON-GEALING, ppr. Changing from a liquid to a solid state; concreting.

CON-GEALMENT, n. A clot or concretion; that which is formed by congelation. Also, congelation. CON-GE-LATION, n. [L. congelatio.] The process of passing, or the act of converting from a fluid to a solid state, by the abstraction of heat; or the state of being cougealed; concretion.

ICON-GEM-I-NATION, n. A doubling or often repeating. CONGE-NER, n. [L. congener.] A thing of the same genus, kind, or nature.

CONGE-NER,

a. Of the same genus, kind, or nature;

CON-GENER-OUS, allied in origin or cause.
CON-GENER-A-CY, n. Similarity of origin.
CON-GE-NERIE, a. Being of the same kind or nature.
CON-GENER-OUS-NESS, n. The quality of being from the
same original, or of belonging to the same kind.
CON-GE'NI-AL, a. [L. con and genus.] 1. Partaking of the
same genus, kind, or nature; kindred; cognate. 2. Belong-
ing to the nature; natural; agreeable to the nature. 3.
Natural; agreeable to the nature; adapted; as, congenial
to his disposition.

CON-GE-NI-ALI-TY, n. Participation of the same genus,
CON-GENI-AL-NESS, nature, or original; cognation;
natural affinity; suitableness.
CON-GENI-AL-IZE, v. t. To make congenial.
ICON-GE'NI-OUS, a. Of the same kind.
CON-GENTTE, a. [L. congenitus.] Of the same birth;
CON-GENT-TAL, born with another; conuate; begotten
together.

CON GER,
(kong gur-), n. [L. conger or congrus.]
CON GER-EEL, The sea-eel; a species of eel, some-
times ten feet long.

CON-GERI-ES, n. [L.) A collection of several particles or bodies in one mass or aggregate.

CON-GEST, v. t. [L. congero, congestum.) To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate. CON-GESTI-BLE, a. That may be collected into a mass. CON-GESTION (kon-jestyun), n. [L. congestio.) An unnatural accumulation of blood in any part of the body, or any subordinate system of parts.

CON-GESTIVE, a. Indicating an accumulation of blood in some part of the body.

CON'GI-A-RY, n. [L. congiarium.] Properly, a present made by the Roman emperors to the people, originally in corn or wine, measured out to them in a congius.

CON-GLACIATE, v. i. [L. conglacio.] To turn to ice; to

freeze.

CON-GLA-CI-ATION, n. The act of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation.

CON-GLOBATE, a. [L. conglobatus.] Formed or gathered

into a ball.

CON-GLOBATE, v. 1. To collect or form into a ball or hard, round substance.

CON-GLOBA-TED, pp. Collected or formed into a ball. CON-GLOBATE-LY, adv. In a round or roundish form. CON-GLO-BATION, n. The act of forming into a ball; a round body.

CON-GLOBE, v. t. [L. conglobo.] To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

CON-GLOBE', v. i. To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round

mass.

CON-GLOBED (kon-globd), pp. Collected into a ball.
CON-GLOBING, ppr. Gathering into a round mass or ball.
CON-GLOBU-LATE, v. i. To gather into a little round
mass or globule.

CON-GLOMER-ATE, a. [L. conglomero.] 1. Gathered into
a ball or round body; as, a conglomerate gland, which is
formed of many smaller ones.-2. In botany, conglomerate
flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot stalk, on
short pedicles, closely compacted together without order.
-3. Conglomerate rocks. See PUDDING-STONE.
CON-GLOMER-ĀTE, v. t. To gather into a ball or round
body; to collect into a round mass.

CON-GLOMER-ATE, n. In geology, a sort of puddingstone, or rock, composed of pebbles cemented together by another mineral substance.

CON-GLOMER-A-TED, pp. or a. Gathered into a ball or round mass.

CON-GLOMER-X-TING, ppr. Collecting into a ball.

CON-GLOM-ER-ITION, 2 The act of gathering into a
bull; the state of being thus collected; collection; accu-
mulation,

CON-GLITI-NANT, a. Gluing; uniting; healing.
CON-GLUTINANT, 2. A medicine that heals wounds.
CON-GLETI-NATE, e. t. [L. conglutino.] 1. To glue to-
gether; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious sub-
stance. 2. To heal; to unite the separated parts of a
wound by a tenacious substance.

CON-GLU TI-NATE, v. i. To coalesce; to unite by the in-
tervention of a callus,

CON-GLUTI-NA-TED, pp. or a Glued together; united by a tenacious substance.

CON-GLUTI-NA-TING, ppr. Gluing together; uniting or closing by a tenacious substance.

CON-GLU-TI-NATION,

The act of gluing together; a
joining by means of some tenacious substance; a healing
by uniting the parts of a wound; union.
CON-GLITI-NA-TIVE, a. Having the power of uniting by
glue, or other substance of like nature.
CON-GLETI-NA-TOR, 2. That which has the power of
uniting wounds.

CON GO (konggo), n. A species of black tea from China.
CON-GRATU-LANT, a. Rejoicing in participation.
CON-GRATU-LATE (kon-gratyu-late), v. L. [L. congratu-
lor.) To profess one's pleasure or joy to another on ac-
count of an event deemed happy or fortunate, as on the
birth of a child, success in an enterprise, victory, escape
from danger, &c.; to wish joy to another.
CON-GRATU-LATE, . i. To rejoice in participation. -

Swift

CON-GRATU-LA-TED, pp. Complimented with expressions of joy at a happy event.

CON-GRATU-LA-TING, ppr. Professing one's joy or satisfaction on account of some happy event, prosperity, or

success.

CON-GRAT-U-LATION, n. The act of professing one's joy or good wishes at the success or happiness of another, or on account of an event deemed fortunate to both parties, or to the community.

CON-GRATE-LA-TOR, n. One who offers congratulations. CON-GRATU-LA-TO-RY, a. Expressing joy for the good fortune of another, or for an event fortunate for both parties, or for the community.

CON-GREE, . ¿. To agree.-Shak.

ICON-GREET, v. t. To salute mutually.-Shak.

CON GRE-GATE, e. t. [L. congrego.] To collect separate persons or things into an assemblage; to assemble; to gather; to bring into one place, or into a crowd or united body.

CON GRE-GATE, v. i. To come together; to assemble; to meet-Denham.

CON GRE-GATE, & Collected; compact; close.-Bacon. (Little used.)

CÒN GRE-GI-TED, pp. or a. Collected; assembled in one place.

CON GRE-GI-TING, ppr. Collecting; assembling; coming together.

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† CON-GRES'SION (kon-gresh'un), n. A company.
CON-GRESSION-AL (kon-gresh'un-al), a. Pertaining to
a congress, or to the Congress of the United States.-
Barlow.

CON-GRESSIVE, a. 1. Meeting, as the sexes. 2. Encoun-
tering.

CONGREVE ROCKET, n. A very destructive kind of
rocket, filled with inflammable matter, invented by Sir
William Congreve.

CON-GRUE', v. i. To agree.-Shak.
CON GRU-ENCE, n. [L. congruentia.] Suitableness of one
CON-GRUEN-CY,
thing to another; agreement; consist-
Suitable; agreeing; correspondent-

ency.

CON GRU-ENT, a.
Davies.

CON-GRUT-TY, n. 1. Suitableness; the relation of agree ment between things. 2. Fitness; pertinence. 3. Rea son; consistency; propriety.-4. In school divinity, the good actions which are supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who per form them.-5. In geometry, figures or lines, which, when laid over one another, exactly coincide, are in congruity. CON GRU-MENT, n. Fitness; adaptation.

CON GRU-OUS, a. [L. congruus.] 1. Accordant; suitable; consistent; agreeable to. 2. Rational; fit.

CON GRU-OUS-LY, adv. Suitably; pertinently; agreeably;
consistently.-Boyle.

ΕΟΝΊΘ, a. [L. conicus.] 1. Having the form of a
CONTE-AL, cone; round, and Cecreasing to a point. 2.
Pertaining to a cone. Conic section, a curve line formed
by the intersection of a cone and plane. The conic sections
are the parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse.
CONTE-AL-LY, adv. In the form of a cone.
CONIC-AL-NESS, n. The state or quality of being conical.
CONIES, n. That part of geometry which treats of the
cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

CO'NI-FER, n. [L.) A plant bearing cones.
CO-NIF'ER-A, n. pl. [L.) An order of plants, which, like
the fir and pine, bear cones or tops in which the seeds
are contained.-Lyell.

CO-NIFER-OUS, a. [L. conifer, coniferus.] Bearing cones;
producing hard, dry, scaly seed-vessels of a conical figure,
as the pine, fir, cypress, and beech.
CONI-FORM, a. In form of a cone; conical.
CO-NII-NA,

CO-NEI-NA,
CO-NICI-NA,
CO-NI'A,

€Ο-ΝΙΥΝΕ,

ΕΟ-ΝΕΊΝΕ,

n. [Gr. κωνειον.] An alkaloid obtained from conium maculatum, the modern officinal hemlock, and its active medicinal principle.

CON-I-SOR'. See COGNISOR.
CO-NI-ROSTERS, n. pl. [L. conus and rostrum.] A tribe
of insessorial birds, including those which have a strong
bill of a conical form, as crows and finches. - Brande.
CO-NI-ROSTRAL, a. Having a thick conical beak, as crows
and finches, Swainson,

CON GRE-GATION (kong-gre-ga'shun), n. 1. The act of
bringing together, or assembling. 2. A collection or as-
semblage of separate things. 3. Moregenerally, an assem-
bly of persons; and, appropriately, an assembly of persons
met for the worship of God. 4. An assembly of rulers.-
Numb. xxxv. 5. An assembly of ecclesiastics or cardinals
appointed by the pope. Also, a company or society, form-CON-JECT, v. i. To guess.-Shak.
ing a subdivision of a monastic order. 6. At the Univer-
sity of Oxford, the assembly of masters and doctors, for
transacting the ordinary business of conferring degrees,
&c-Brande.

CO-NISTRA, n. [Gr.) The pit of a theatre.
CONITE, n. [Gr. κονις.] A variety of magnesian carbonate
of lime, occurring massive or in stalactites. It contains
three parts of carbonate of magnesia and one of carbon-
ate of lime.-Dana.

CON GRE-GATION-AL, a. 1. Pertaining to a congrega-
tion. 2. Belonging to the system of congregationalism.
CON GRE-GITION-AL-ISM, n. That system of church
government which vests all ecclesiastical power in the
assembled brotherhood of each local church as an inde-
pendent body.

CÒN GREGATION-AL-IST, 2. One who belongs to a congregational church or society.

CONGRESS (konggress), n. [L. congressus.] 1. A meeting of individuals; an assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, &c., particularly a meeting of the representatives of several courts, to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns. 2. The assembly of delegates of the several British colonies in America, which united to resist the claims of Great Britain in 1774. 3. The assembly of the delegates of the several United States, after the declaration of independence, in 1776, and until the adoption of the present Constitution, 4. The assembly of senators and representatives of the United States of North America, according to the present Constitution, or political compact, by which they are united in a federal republic. 5. A meeting of two or more persons in a contest; an encounter; a conflict. 6. The meeting of the sexes in sexual commerce. SYN. Assem

CON-JECT, v. 1. To throw together, or to throw.

CON-JECTOR, n. [L.) One who guesses or conjectures.
-Swift.

CON-JECTU-RA-BLE, a. That may be guessed or con-
jectured,

CON-JECTU-RAL, a. Depending on conjecture; done or said by guess,

ICON-JECT-U-RALT-TY, n. That which depends upon guess. Brown.

CON-JECT'U-RAL-LY, adv. Without proof or evidence, by conjecture; by guess.

CON-JECTURE (kon-jekt yur), n. [L. conjectura.] 1. Lit erally, a casting or throwing together of possible or probable events, or a casting of the mind to something future, or something past, but unknown; a guess; supposition; preponderance of opinion without proof; surmise: 2. Idea; notion.-Shak.

CON-JECTURE, v. t. To judge by guess, or by the prob-
ability or the possibility of a fact, or by very slight evi-
dence; to form an opinion at random. SYN. Το imagine;
suspect; guess; divine.

CON-JECTURED (kon-jekt yurd), pp. Guessed; surmised.
CON-JECTUR-ER, n. One who guesses; a guesser; one
who forms or utters an opinion without proof.
CON-JECTUR-ING, ppr. Guessing; surmising.
CON-JOBBLE, v. t. To settle; to concert. A cant word.]
CON-JOIN'. v. 1. [Fr. conjoindre.] 1. To join together, with
out any thing intermediate; to unite two or more persons
or things in close connection. 2. To associate, or connect.

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