Webster's Dictionary 1913

6562

Cone clutch

Cone clutch. (Mach.) A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces.

6563

Cone pulley

Cone″ pul″ley (?). A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

6564

Cone-in-cone

Cone″–in–cone″ (?), a.(Geol.) Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; — said of a kind of structure sometimes ob...

6565

Cone-nose

Cone″–nose′, n. A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the s...

6566

Coneflower

Cone″flow′er (?), n. Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; — so called from the cone-shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, th...

6567

Coneine

Co‐ne″ine (? or?; 104), n.(Chem.) See Conine.

6568

Conepate

{ Co″ne‐pate (?), Co″ne‐patl (?) }, n. [Mexican conepatl and epatl.] (Zoöl.) The skunk.

6569

Conestoga wagon

{ Con′es‐to″ga wag′onorwain (?) }. [From Conestoga, Pennsylvania.] A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

6570

Coney

Co″ney (? or?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) A rabbit. See Cony.2. (Zoöl.) A fish. See Cony.

6571

Confab

Con″fab (?), n. [Contr. from confabulation.] Familiar talk or conversation.

6572

Confabulate

Con‐fab″u‐late (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Confabulated; p. pr. & vb. n.Confabulating.] [L. confabulatus, p. p. of confabulary, to converse together; con- + fabulary to speak, fr. f...

6573

Confabulation

Con‐fab′u‐la″tion (?), n. [L. confabulatio.] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winte...

6574

Confabulatory

Con‐fab″u‐la‐to‐ry (?), a. Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever.

6575

Confalon

Con″fa‐lon (?), n. [F. See Confalon.] (R. C. Ch.) One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.

6576

Confarreation

Con‐far′re‐a″tion (?), n. [L. confarreatio, fr. confarreare to marry; con- + farreum (sc. libum cake) a spelt cake, fr. farreus made of spelt, fr. far a sort of grain.] (Antiq.)...

6577

Confated

Con‐fat″ed (?), p. a. Fated or decreed with something else. A. Tucker.

6578

Confect

Con‐fect″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Confected; p. pr. & vb. n.Confecting.] [L. confectus, p. p. of conficere to prepare. See Comfit.] 1. To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confe...

6579

Confect (2)

Con″fect (?), n. A comfit; a confection.At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects.Harvey.

6580

Confection

Con‐fec″tion (?), n. [F., fr. L. confectio.] 1. A composition of different materials.A new confection of mold.Bacon.2. A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a swee...

6581

Confectionary

Con‐fec″tion‐a‐ry (?), n. [Cf. LL. confectionaris a pharmacist.] A confectioner.He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks.1 Sam. viii. 13.

6582

Confectionary (2)

Con‐fec″tion‐a‐ry, a. Prepared as a confection.The biscuit or confectionary plum.Cowper.

6583

Confectioner

Con‐fec″tion‐er (?), n. 1. A compounder.Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents.Haywood.2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.

6584

Confectioners' sugar

Con‐fec″tion‐ers' sug′ar. A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

6585

Confectionery

Con‐fec″tion‐er‐y (?), n. 1. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.2. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things ar...

6586

Confectory

Con‐fec″to‐ry (?), a. Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. Beaumont.

6587

Confecture

Con‐fec″ture (?), n. Same as Confiture.

6588

Confeder

Con‐fed″er (kŏn‐fĕd″ẽr), v. i. [Cf. F. confédérer. See Confederate.] To confederate. Sir T. North.