Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-NIVE', v.i. [L. conniveo, connivi or connixi; con and the root of nicto, to wink. Class Ng.]

1. To wink; to close and open the eyelids rapidly. – Spectator.
2. In a figurative sense, to close the eyes upon a fault or other act; to pretend ignorance or blindness; to forbear to see; to overlook a fault or other act, and suffer it to pass unnoticed, uncensured or unpunished; as, the father connives at the vices of his son.