A rubbing together; friction.

A confr/re.

To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

Act of confronting.

Same as Affront/.

One who confronts.

The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.

Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher, or to Confucianism; as, Confucian ethics. A Confucianist.

The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god.

A follower of Confucius; a Confucian.

a Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC), the founder of Confucianism.

Confused, disturbed.

Capability of being confused.

Capable of being confused.

To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.

In a confused manner.

A state of confusion.

Confusedly; obscurely.

causing mental confusion and perplexity.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

Confusing; having a tendency to confusion.

That may be confuted.

One who undertakes to confute.

The act or process of confuting; refutation.

Adapted or designed to confute.

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Confutation.

One who confutes or disproves.

the act of demonstrating that something is false; confutation.

An abbreviation of Congius.

music composed for dancing the conga.

a line of persons dancing the conga{2}.

To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow ceremoniously, or courtesy.

Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.

To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.

Capable of being congealed.

solidified; as, congealed into jelly.

The state of being congealed.

The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.

Boiled rice; rice gruel.

The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.

Similarity of origin; affinity.

Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action; of or pertaining to a congener.

Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases.

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

To make congenial.

In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.

Congeniality.

Congeneric.

Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity; a congenital liar. See Connate and native.

In a congenital manner.

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital.

The conger eel; -- called also congeree.

A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

Crowded together.

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.

Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

To turn to ice; to freeze.

The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost.

To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.

The act or process of forming into a ball.

To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.

To gather into a small round mass.

To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.

A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.

Conglutinant.

Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. Also called English breakfast tea. See Tea.

a native or inhabitant of the Republic of Congo.

Rejoicing together; congratulatory.

To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country.

The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.

One who offers congratulation.

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

To agree.

To salute mutually.

To come together; to assemble; to meet.

The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.

Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.

A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse.

Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.

Encountering, or coming together.

A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.

Short for Cogreve rocket, a powerful form of rocket formerly used in war, either in the field or for bombardment. In the former case it was armed with shell, shrapnel, or other missiles; in the latter, with an inextinguishable explosive material, inclosed in a metallic case. It was guided by a long wooden stick.

To agree; to be suitable.

Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

Congruence.

Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

See Congruity.

The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.

Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.

In a congruous manner.

A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

Same as Conine.

A conic section.

Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.

Conicalness.

In the form of a cone.

State or quality of being conical.

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico-hemispherical; conico-subulate.

Same as Conoidal.

That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

a specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia.

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

a class of cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous; most are substantial trees; it includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian) and Volztiales (of the Permian-Jurassic).

same as coniferophyta.

Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress. Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.

Cone-shaped; conical.