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<blockquote>The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, <b>connotes</b>, the attribute "whiteness." <i>J. S. Mill.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Connubial</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con*nu"bi*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>connubialis</ets>, fr. <ets>connubium</ets> marriage; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>nubere</ets> to veil, to marry. See <er>Nupital</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.</def>

<blockquote>Nor Eve the rites Mysterious of <b>connubial</b> love refused. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Kind, <b>connubial</b> tenderness. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Connubiality</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con*nu`bi*al"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.</def>

<blockquote>Some <b>connubialities</b> which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Connumeration</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con*nu`mer*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>connumeratio</ets>, fr. L. <ets>connumerare</ets>, <ets>-numeratum</ets>, to number with.]</ety> <def>A reckoning together.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Porson.</i>

<h1>Connusance</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con"nu*sance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>See <er>Cognizance</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Connusant</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con"nu*sant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>See <er>Cognizant</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Connusor</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con`nu*sor"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>See <er>Cognizor</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Connutritious</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con`nu*tri"tious</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Crabb.</i>

<h1>Conny</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Con"ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<?/ 45. Cf. <er>Canny</er>, <er>Gunning</er>.]</ety> <def>Brave; fine; canny.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Grose.</i>

<h1>Conodont</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Co"no*dont</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ cone + <?/, <?/, tooth.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.</def>

<h1>Conoid</h1> <Xpage=304>

<hw>Co"noid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ conical; <?/ cone + <?/ from: cf. F. <ets>cono\'8bde</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; <as>as, a parabolic <ex>conoid</ex>, elliptic conoid, etc.</as>; -- more commonly called <altname>paraboloid</altname>, <altname>ellipsoid</altname>, etc.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.</def>

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