Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-DUC-TI'TIOUS, a. [L. conductitius, from conduco, to hire.]

Hired; employed for wages. – Ayliffe.

CON-DUCT'IVE, a.

Directing; leading; managing.

CON-DUCT'OR, n.

1. A leader; a guide; one who goes before or accompanies, and shows the way.
2. A chief; a commander; one who leads an army or a people.
3. A director; a manager. – Addison.
4. In surgery, an instrument which serves to direct the knife in cutting for the stone, and in laying up sinuses and fistulas; also, a machine to secure a fractured limb. – Coxe. Encyc.
5. In electrical experiments, any body that receives and communicates electricity; such as metals and moist substances. Bodies which repel it, or into which it will not pass, are called non-conductors. Hence,
6. A metallic rod erected by buildings or in ships, to conduct lightning to the earth or water, and protect the building from its effects.

CON-DUCT'O-RY, a.

Having the property of conducting.

CON-DUCT'RESS, n.

A female who leads or directs; a directress.

CON'DUIT, n. [Fr. conduit, the participle of conduire, L. conducere, to conduct; Sp. conducto; It. condotto; Port. conducta.]

1. A canal or pipe for the conveyance of water; an aqueduct. Conduits are made of lead, stone, cast iron, wood, &c., above or below the surface of the earth.
2. A vessel that conveys the blood or other fluid. The conduits of the blood. – Shak.
3. A conductor. These organs are the nerves, which are the conduits to convey them from without to their audience in the brain. – Locke.
4. A pipe or cock for drawing off liquor. – Shak.
5. Any channel that conveys water or fluids; a sink, sewer or drain.

CON-DU'PLI-CATE, a. [L. conduplicatus, from conduplico, to double or fold; con and duplico. See Double.]

Doubled or folded over or together; as, the leaves of a bud. – Martyn.

CON-DU'PLI-CATE, v.t.

To double; to fold together.

CON-DU'PLI-CA-TED, a.

Doubled; folded together.

CON-DU'PLI-CA'TION, n. [L. conduplicatio.]

A doubling; a duplicate. – Johnson.

CON'DYL, n. [L. condylus; Gr. κονδυλος.]

A protuberance on the end of a bone; a knot, or joint; a knuckle. – Coxe.

CON'DYL-OID, a. [Gr. κονδυλος, and ειδος, form.]

The condyloid process is the posterior protuberance at the extremities of the under jaw; an oblong rounded head, which is received into the fossa of the temporal bone, forming a movable articulation. The anterior is called the coronoid process. – Encyc.

CON'DYL-OID, n.

The apophysis of a bone; the projecting soft end, or process of a bone. Coxe.

CON'DYL-OPE, n. [Gr. κονδυλος, a joint, and πους, foot.]

An animal with jointed legs.

CON-DYL'O-PODE, n. [Gr. κονδυλος and πους.]

An animal which has jointed feet.

CONE, n. [Fr. cone; It. and Sp. cono; from L. conus; Gr. κονως; W. con, that which shoots to a point, from extending; W. connyn, a tail; conyn, a stalk; cono, a spruce fellow. It coincides in radical sense with the root of can and begin.]

1. A solid body or figure having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex, like a sugar-loaf.
2. In botany, the conical fruit of several evergreen trees, as of the pine, fir, cedar and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, usually opening, and has a seed at the base of each scale. – Martyn. A cone of rays, in optics, includes all the rays of light which proceed from a radiant point and fall upon the surface of glass. – Encyc. A right cone, is when its axis is perpendicular to its base, and its sides equal. It is formed by the revolution of a right-angled plane triangle about one of its sides. A scalene cone, is when its axis is inclined to its base and its sides unequal. – Bailey.

CO'NE-PATE, or CO'NE-PATL, n.

The Mexican popular name of an animal of the weasel kind in America, resembling the pole-cat in form and size, and in its fetid stench. It is the Mephitis Americana, commonly called Skunk in New England.

CONE'-SHAP-ED, a.

Having the form of a cone.

CO'NEY, n. [See CONY.]

CON-FAB'U-LATE, v.i. [L. confabulor; con and fabulor, to tell. See Fable.]

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. If birds confabulate or no. [Little used.] – Cowper.

CON-FAB-U-LA'TION, n. [L. confabulatio.]

Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [Not an elegant word, and little used.]

CON-FAB'U-LA-TO-RY, a.

Belonging to familiar talk. [Little used.]

CON-FA-MIL'IAR, a.

Very familiar. [Not in use.]

CON-FAR-RE-A'TION, n. [L. confarreatio; con and farreo, to join in marriage with a cake, from far, corn or meal.]

The solemnization of marriage among the Romans, by a ceremony in which the bridegroom and bride tasted a cake made of flour with salt and water, called far or panis farreus, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses. – Ayliffe. Adam.

CON-FAT'ED, a.

Fated together. [Not in use.]