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Congenite

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital.

Conger

The conger eel; -- called also congeree.

Congeries

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

Congestion

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

Congestive

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

Congiary

A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius.

Congius

A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

Conglaciation

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

Conglobate

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

Conglobe

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

Conglomerate

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

Conglomeration

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

Conglutin

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

Conglutinant

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

Conglutinate

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

Conglutination

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

Congo Congou

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

Congolese

a native or inhabitant of the Republic of Congo.

Congratulate

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

Congratulation

The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.

Congratulatory

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

Congregation

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

Congregational

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

Congregationalism

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

Congregationalist

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

Congress

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

Congression

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

Congressional

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

Congressman

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

Congreve

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.

Congruence

Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

Congruent

Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

Congruity

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

Congruous

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

Conhydrine

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

Conical Conic

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.

Conico-

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

Conics

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

conidiophore

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

Conidium

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

Conifer

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

Coniferin

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

Coniferophytina Coniferophyta

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).

Coniferous

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

Conine

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.

Conirostres

A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

Conistra

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.

Conite

A magnesian variety of dolomite.

Conium

A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (/seeds/) and decompound leaves.

Conject

To conjecture; also, to plan.

Conjectural

Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.

Conjecture

To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

Conjoin

To unite; to join; to league.

Conjointly

In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together.

Conjubilant

Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together.

Conjugal

Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

Conjugally

In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.

Conjugate

To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.

conjugated

formed by the union of two compounds; as, a conjugated protein.

Conjugation

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.

Conjunction

The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.

Conjunctiva

The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane.

Conjunctly

In union; conjointly; unitedly; together.

Conjuncture

The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination.

Conjuration

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.

Conjurator

One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator.

Conjure

To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.

Conjurement

Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.

Conjurer

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.

conjuring

invoking a spirit or devil. See conjure, v..

Conjuror

One bound by a common oath with others.

Conjury

The practice of magic; enchantment.

conk

to hit on the head; as, to conk someone on the head with a pipe.

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