CPage 494
- English Word Concertos Definition of Concerto
- English Word Concession Definition The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
- English Word Concession Definition A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.
- English Word Concessionist Definition One who favors concession.
- English Word Concessive Definition Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.
- English Word Concessively Definition By way of concession.
- English Word Concessory Definition Conceding; permissive.
- English Word Concetti Definition of Concetto
- English Word Concettism Definition The use of concetti or affected conceits.
- English Word Concetto Definition Affected wit; a conceit.
- English Word Conch Definition A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
- English Word Conch Definition In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
- English Word Conch Definition One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
- English Word Conch Definition See Concha, n.
- English Word Conch Definition The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
- English Word Concha Definition The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
- English Word Concha Definition The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.
- English Word Conchal Definition Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.
- English Word Conchifer Definition One of the Conchifera.
- English Word Conchifera Definition That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.