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{ } a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. “The olecranon on anconeal process.” Flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. ancon elbow. ] (Anat.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. kw^nos; akin to Skr. çana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See Hone, n. ] 1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone
Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 cone or
Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. --
Eight cone. See Cone, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone-shaped disk of the flower head. They are cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. any of various perennials of eastern US having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Conine.

, n. A large bloodsucking hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.
Syn. -- cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. [ Mexican conepatl and epatl. ] (Zool.) The skunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tropical Asian tree (Holarrhena pubescens or Holarrhena antidysenterica) with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.
Syn. -- ivory tree, kurchi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or . [ From Conestoga, Pennsylvania. ] A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A rabbit. See Cony. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A fish. See Cony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) A female deacon; as: (a) (Primitive Ch.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. (b) (Ch. of Eng. and Prot. Epis. Ch.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. (c) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fauconer, OF. falconier, fauconier, F. fauconnier. See Falcon. ] A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of falcon: cf. F. fauconneau, LL. falconeta, properly, a young falcon. ] 1. One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax. (b) One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Jaconet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. jaconas. ] A thin cotton fabric, between cambric and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc. [ Written also jacconet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lactuca. ] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a fence, an inclosure + &unr_; a cone. ] (Zool.) The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite. [ Written also phragmacone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a tablet. So called because it unites with water so as to form tablet-shaped crystals. ] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type. [ Written also pinakone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pseudo- + cone. ] (Zool.) One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. quindecim fifteen. ] (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid. [ Written also quindekone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [ Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc. ] [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]