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concernment to mankind. Boyle. — tnterpofition ; regard; 

 mectilling. — He married a daughter to the earl, without 

 any other approbation of her tather, or concernment in it, 

 than J'ufi'erine; him and her to come into his prefence. 

 Clarendon. — Palhon ; emotion of mind. — While they are 

 lb eager to deftroy the fame of others, their ambition is 

 rhajiifeil in their concernment. Drjdai. 



To C'ONCE'RT, i>. a. [conarter, Fr. from concertare, 

 Lat. to prepare themit;K-es for fome public exhibition, or 

 perfoniinnce, by private encounters among theuifelves.] 

 To fettle any thing in private by mutual communication, 

 To Ibttle; to contrive; to adjull: 

 Mark how, already, in his working brain, 

 Ke forms the wcW-concerttd Icheme of milchief. Ronve. 



CON'CERT,/. Communication of defigns ; eftablifli- 

 ment of mealures among thoi'e who are engaged in the 

 i'lnie affair. — All thole dil'contents, how ruinous foever, 

 have arifen from the want of a due communication and 

 concert. Sivift. — A iyniphony ; many performers joining 

 ill the fame tune. 



CONCERTA'TION,/ [^Mcm-.-?//!;, Lat.] Strife; con- 

 tention. 



CONCCR'TATIVE, arij. \_concertati-vt'.s, Lat.] Con- 

 tentious i quarrellbnie ; recriminative. 



CONCERTO,/ [Ital.] A piece of mufic compofed for 

 a concert. It is now generally ufed for a piece intended 

 to difplay the powers of one particular inftrument or 

 performer, the rell of the band joining occaiionally in 

 concert. 



CONCES'SrON,/ [conceJio,L?it.'] The aft of granting 

 cr yielding. — The concejfion of thele charters was in a par- 

 Iramcntary way. Hale. — A grant; the thing yielded. — 

 I Itill counted myfelf nndiniiniihed by my largeft conccf- 

 Jions, if by them I might gain the love of my people. 

 Ki.'ig Charles. 



CONCES'SIONARY, aJj. Given by indulgence or .il- 

 lowance. 

 ■ CONCES'SIVE, aiij. Implying conceflion. — Hypothe- 

 tical, conditional, concej/lve, and exceptive, conjuntfions, 

 I'eem in general to require a fubjunftive mood after them. 

 Lcicth. 



CONCES'SIVELY, adi<. By way of concedlon ; as, 

 yielding; not controverting by affumption. — Some have 

 written rhetorically and concrjfi-velj ; not controverting, 

 but affuming the queftion, which, taken as granted, ad- 

 vantaged the illation. Broivn. 



CONCETTO,/. [Ital. and keeps its plural] Falle 

 conceit. — There is a kind of counter-talle, founded on 

 furprife and curiolity, which maintains a fort of rivalfliip 

 with the true, and may he exprelTed by the word concetto. 



■ShenJIone The fliepherds have their concetti and thsjir an- 



tithefes. Chejlc'-Jield. 



CONCE'ZE, a town of France, in'the department of 

 the Correze, and diitrift of Brive: fix leagues north-welt 

 ofBiive. 



CONCH,/ [concha, Lat.] A (lielf; a fea-fliell : 



He furnidies her clofet firft, and fills 



The crowded (lielves with rarities of fliells: 



Adds orient pearls, which from the conchs he drew, 



And all the fparkling llones of various hue. Drydai. 



CON'CHE, a fmall village in Maritime Auftria, half in 

 the territory of Padua, and half in that of Venice. 



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the nature and properties of (liells. This is a very plesf- 

 ing and curious depiirtment of natural hiltory ; for, in. 

 the infinite variety of fliells difperftd over the univerfe, 

 the hand of the Supreme Artill has difplayed every gra- 

 dation of beauty v.'hich can exill in a permanent I'orm-. 

 Fi'om the moll rude and nitfliapen oylter, fcarcely to be 

 diltinguillied from its native rock, the fcale regularly' 

 afcendsj till it arrives at perfeftiop in the elegant naatile, 

 or fupei'ior fjmmetry of the fpiral fnail ; whofe convolu- 

 tions commencing in a point, and winding with the eafy 

 flow of the m.oft beautiful undulating wreath, infeniibly 

 dilate themfelves as they advance, till the whole aifumes 

 the elegant taper of the cone. From this admired ftruc- 

 ture, it is imagined, the Greeks prefervfd it in one of 

 their temples coniecrated to Venus, as the emblem of 

 that goddefs ; for we find united in this iliell all thofe 

 lines or figures, which mathematicians pronoutice to be 

 the mod: bjautiful. 



Da Cofta dates the definition of a {hell as follows : A 

 kind of ftone-like calcareous covering or h.abitation, in 

 which the whole animal, otherwife quite nal.ed or flelhy, 

 lives included as in a houfe ; whereas the crullaceolis ani- 

 mals, as lobfters, crabs. Sec. are not naked, but have every 

 particular limb or part feparately cpvered with the cruft, 

 w-hich confequently is formed into many joints, infomuch 

 that the whole animal feems as it were loricated, or in a 

 coat of mail. All (hell animals are exanguious, that is, 

 have no blood fimilar to that of quadrupeds, birds, tidies, 

 or reptiles ; and therefore properly appertain to Lm nanus's 

 fixth clafs of animals, or vermes. They are alio defti- 

 tHie of any bones; thofe fulcra or props to the mufcles 

 of the animal ftrufture, being exterior in thele creatures, 

 in their fliells ; and not interior, as all bones of other 

 animals are placed. However, they are endowed with 

 the principal parts, as the mouth, lungs, heart, &c. be- 

 fides other parts fuitable to their mode of life. 



It has been a fubjeft of fome debate among naturalills, 

 Whether the methodical fyltem or arrangement of telhi- 

 cf.ous animals fliould be formed from the li''iiig animals 

 themfelves, or from their habitations or fliells .' The. for- 

 mer method feems moft fcientifical ; but the latter, from 

 the fliells, is univerfally followed for the purpofes of con- 

 chology ; and for many realbns. The vaft number of I'pe- 

 cies hitherto difcovered, and the numerous colleilions 

 made, exhibit only the fliells or habitations, the animals 

 themfelves being fcarcely known or detcribtd. Of the 



fliells we daily difcover, few are fifticd up living; the 

 greater number are found on fliores, dead and empty. 

 Accurate defcriptions of animals, whofe parts are not 

 eafily feen or obvious, and anatomical relearches, are not 

 in the capacity of every one to make; nor are the parti- 

 cular parts and their refpctlive funftions lb ealily cogni- 

 zable to any but expej't, aHiduous, and philoibphical, en- 

 quirers. How is it poflible, then, to arrange a numerous 

 fet of the fliells of animals, by charaiSlers or pa;ts we can 

 with difliculty, if ever, get acquainted with, in the far 

 greater number of the fpecies we coUeft or difcover ? 



All other ranks of animals are arranged into fyflems 

 by obvious and external, not by fcientifical, characters. 

 Quadrupeds are methodized by their teeth, horns, hoofs, 

 and hides, or coverings; birds by their plumage, be.^ks, 

 and claws; reptiles and infefts by like particulars; the 

 very fiflies, though of a different element, undergo ar- 

 rangements by their fins; and the vcg'.tablcs are diltin- 



CON'CHES, a town of France, in the department of guJlhcd by their flowers and fruits. All thele arrange 



the Lower Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 dillrict of Paa : fix leagues north-north-calt of Pau. 



CON'CHES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrift of 

 Evreux: three leagues (buth-we!t of Evreux. 



CON'CHOID,7". orCoNCHiLES, the name of a curve in- 

 vented by Niconudes. It was much ufed by the ancients 

 in the conftruition of folid problem.s. See Fluxions. 



CONCHO'LOGY,/ [from xcyxi. a fliell, and ?,oyi^, a 

 xlifcourle.] The fcienec which teaches an inveltigation of 



nients are on the principles of external and obvious cha- 

 ratlcrs. Why then (hould it be requiied to arr-.nge by 

 fcientifical or difliciilt charafters, the fliells of animals 

 who chieHy live in the depths of the Ufa, that have hardly 

 a progrefhve motion, and are, for the greater part, tlilfi- 

 cultly, if ever, within our reach ? Why fliould naturalills 

 demand of fiich animals only, a fyfteni or arrangement, 

 the moll difficult to attain, while all the other orders of 

 animals, whofe arrangements by fucli methods are more 

 eafily attainable, are methodized only, and with univerliil 



conleiit 



