Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON'JU-GATE, a.

In botany, a conjugate leaf is a pinnate leaf which has only one pair of leaflets; a conjugate raceme has two racemes only, united by a common peduncle. – Martyn. Conjugate diameter or axis, in geometry, a right line bisecting the transverse diameter; the shortest of the two diameters of an ellipsis. – Chambers. Encyc.