Part 446

Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

3. (Bot.) The fruit or strobile of the ConiferŠ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

4. (Zo÷l.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

Cone of rays (Opt.), the pencil of rays of light which proceed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that of a lens, or conversely. -- Cone pulley. See in the Vocabulary. -- Oblique or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. -- Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

Cone (?), v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

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 observed in sedimentary rocks.

Co*ne"ine (? or ?; 104), n. (Chem.) See Conine.

{ Co"ne*pate (?), Co"ne*patl (?) }, n. [Mexican conepatl and epatl.] (Zo÷l.) The skunk.

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.

Co"ney (? or ?), n. 1. (Zo÷l.) A rabbit. See Cony.

2. (Zo÷l.) A fish. See Cony.

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

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. fabula. See Fable.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.

Con*fab`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. confabulatio.] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.

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

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

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.) A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

Con*fat"ed (?), p. a. Fated or decreed with something else. [R.] A. Tucker.

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 confection of. [Obs.]

Saffron confected in Cilicia. W. Browne.

2. To construct; to form; to mingle or mix. [Obs.]

Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers. Sir T. Herbert.

Con"fect (?), n. A comfit; a confection. [Obs.]

At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. Harvey.

Con*fec"tion (?), n. [F., fr. L. confectio.] 1. A composition of different materials. [Obs.]

A new confection of mold. Bacon.