Part 445

Con*duct"or (k&obreve;n*dŭk"t&etilde;r), n. [LL., a carrier, transporter, L., a lessee.] 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden.

2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.]

3. (Mus.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.

4. (Physics) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.

5. (Surg.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.

6. (Arch.) Same as Leader.

Prime conductor (Elec.), the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity.

Con*duct"o*ry (?), a. [LL. conductorius.] Having the property of conducting. [R.]

Con*duct"ress (?), n. A woman who leads or directs; a directress.

Con"duit (? or ?; 277), n. [F., fr. LL. conductus escort, conduit. See Conduct.] 1. A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.

All the conduits of my blood froze up. Shak.

This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

2. (Arch.) (a) A structure forming a reservoir for water. Oxf. Gloss.

(b) A narrow passage for private communication.

Con*du"pli*cate (?), a. [L. conduplicatus, p. p. of conduplicare. See Duplicate.] (Bot.) Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or Šstivation.

Con*du`pli*ca"tion (?), n. [L. conduplicatio.] A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [R.]

Con`du*ran"go (?), n. (Med.) See Cundurango.

Con*dur"rite (?), n. (Min.) A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

Con"dy*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a condyle.

Condylar foramen (Anat.), a formen in front of each condyle of the occipital bone; -- sometimes called the anterior condylar foramen when a second, or posterior, foramen is present behind the condyle, as often happens in man.

Con"dyle (? or ?), n. [L. condylus knuckle, joint, Gr. ko`ndylos: cf. F. condyle.] (Anat.) A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.

Con"dy*loid (?), a. [Condyle + -oid: cf. F. condylo´de.] (Anat.) Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.

{ ||Con`dy*lo"ma (-lō"m&adot;), ||Con"dy*lome (-lōm) }, n.; pl. Condylomata (#) or (#), E. Condylomes (-lōmz). [NL. condyloma, fr. Gr. &?;, from ko`ndylos knuckle. See -oma.] (Med.) A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane.

&fist; There are two kinds of condylomata, the pointed and the broad, the latter being of syphilitic origin.

||Con*dyl"o*pod (?), n. [Gr. ko`ndylos knuckle (or joint) + -pod.] (Zo÷l.) An arthropod.

||Cone (?), n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. &?;; akin to Skr. šana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See Hone, n.] 1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.

2. Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriŠ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.