The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.
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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.
See Conine.
Same as Olibene.
A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
One of the Conirostres.
Belonging to the Conirostres.
A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.
See Cognizor.
Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.
A magnesian variety of dolomite.
A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (/seeds/) and decompound leaves.
To conjecture; also, to plan.
One who guesses or conjectures.
Capable of being conjectured or guessed.
Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.
A conjecturer.
In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture.
To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.
One who conjectures.
To unite; to join; to league.
Joined together or touching.
United; connected; associated.
In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together.
The quality of being conjoint.
Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together.
Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.
The conjugal state; sexual intercourse.
In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.
To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.
formed by the union of two compounds; as, a conjugated protein.
the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
relating to conjugation.
Conjugal.
The marriage tie.
United; conjoined; concurrent.
The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
Relating to a conjunction.
The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane.
Joining; connecting.
Serving to unite; connecting together.
In conjunction or union; together.
The state or quality of being conjunctive.
Inflammation of the conjunctiva.
In union; conjointly; unitedly; together.
The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination.
The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator.
To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.
Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.
One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
invoking a spirit or devil. See conjure, v..
One bound by a common oath with others.
The practice of magic; enchantment.
to hit on the head; as, to conk someone on the head with a pipe.
the inedible nutlike seed of the horsechestnut.
See Con, to direct a ship.
The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together.
Born together; produced at the same time.
Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.
Connection by birth; natural union.
Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.
Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection.
To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt.
By the act of nature; originally; from birth.
Participation of the same nature; natural union.
Participation in a common nature or character.
To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connects with another.
p. p. of connect.
In a connected manner.
the state of being connected.
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