The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

Of or pertaining to conation.

A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.

To arch over; to vault.

An arch or vault.

To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.

A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

A joint cause.

The act of making concave.

To make hollow or concave.

Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.

Hollowness; concavity.

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

Concave.

To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

Capable of being concealed.

Hidden; kept from sight; secreted.

One who conceals.

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

To yield or make concession.

acknowledged. Opposite of unacknowledged.

the act of conceding or yielding.

To form an idea; to think.

Endowed with fancy or imagination.

In an egotistical manner.

The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.

Without wit; stupid.

Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.

To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.

One who conceives.

To celebrate together.

Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes.

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.

Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.

The quality of concentrating.

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.

To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate.

That which has a common center with something else.

Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another.

In a concentric manner.

The state of being concentric.

Possessing harmony; accordant.

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.

The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness.

Capable of being conceived; conceivable.

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

Pertaining to conception.

A conceptualist.

Apt to conceive; fruitful.

Capable of conceiving.

Pertaining to conception.

the act of formulating or making a concept of something.

same as conceptualize.

A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.

One who maintains the theory of conceptualism.

the act of formulating or making a concept of something.

to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.

That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.

Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.

In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.

Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.

A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.

Strife; contention.

Contentious; quarrelsome.

Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.

A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.

A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.

Act of concerting; adjustment.

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.

A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.

Of or pertaining to a concession. A concessionaire.

someone who holds or operates a concession.

One who favors concession.

The beneficiary of a concession or grant.

Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.

By way of concession.

Conceding; permissive.

The use of concetti or affected conceits.

Affected wit; a conceit.

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. Strombus gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo and cameo conch.

The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.

One of the Conchifera.

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

Producing or having shells.

Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.

See Quinidine.

A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

Composed of shells; containing many shells.

A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.

A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.

One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions.

See Conchologist, and Conchology.

Same as Conchometry.

Conchylaceous.

The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

The office or lodge of a concierge or janitor.

Capable of being conciliated or reconciled.

An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.

Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council.

To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.

Conciliatory.

One who conciliates.

Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.

To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear.