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conveyance of waters ; an aqueduft.—God is the fountain 
of honour ; and the conduit , by which he conveys it to the 
Ions of men, are virtuous and generous practices. South. 
This face of mine is #iid 
In ftp confuming winter's drizzled fnow. 
And all the conduits of my blood froze up. Shaltefipeare. 
The pipe or cock at which water is drawn.—I charge and 
command that the conduit run nothing but claret wine. 
Shakefpeure. —By 35 Hen. VIII. c. 10. conduits for water 
in London fliall be made and repaired by the lord mayor 
and aldermen, who have the power of punching neglefts 
or defaults herein. , 
CONDUPLICA'TION,/ [. conduplicatio , Lat.] A dou¬ 
bling; a duplicate. 
CONDUSKEE'G, a fettlement of the American States, 
in the diltrift of. Maine, in Hancock county, containing 
five hundred and fixty leven inhabitants. , 
CON'DYLE, /. [condylus, Lat. from y.ovb, a cup fliaped 
like a joint.] A knot in any of the joints formed by the 
epipliyfis of a bone ; in the fingers, it is-called the knuckle. 
In botany, it is the knot or joint of a plant. 
CONE, fi. [xi'W<§K Til y.ava (Sacrts xvxW& er ». Arifiotle.\ 
A folid body, of which the bale is a circle, and which 
ends in a point. See Conic Sections. —The fruit of the 
fir-tree, containing feeds.—The cones , dependent, long, 
and fmooth, growing from the>branches. Evelyn. 
CONE and KEY,/. A woman at the age of fourteen 
or fifteen years might take the charge of her houfe, and 
receive cone and key; cone or coin, in the Saxon, fignify- 
ing computus: fo that (he was then heid to be of compe¬ 
tent years, when (he was able to keep the accounts and 
keys of the houfe. Brail, c. 37. 
CONE-MELTER,/ a hollow cone formed of copper 
or brafs, with.a handle, and a flat bottom adjoining to 
the apex of the cone, upon which it is intended to reft. 
Its ufe is to receive a mails of one or more metals, melted 
together and poured into it. This mals, when cold, may 
be cafily (haken out of the cone, from the figure of the 
veflei. Aifoifa melted mafs, confiding of two or more 
metals, or other fubftances not combined together, be 
poured into this veflei, its conical figure facilitates the 
reparation of thefe fubftances, according to their refpec- 
tive denfities. The cone ought to be well heated before 
the melted mafs is poured into it, that no moifture may 
be contained, which would occafion a dangerous explo- 
fion. It (houid alio be well grealed with tallow, to pre¬ 
vent the adhelion of the melted matter. 
CONEGLIA'NO, in Maritime Auftria, a fmall but 
pieafant town, fituated partly on an eminence, (where 
Lome remains of the old double-walled caftle and of the 
ancient collegiate church, are ftill found,) and partly in 
a plain, near the fource of the river Mutego. It contains 
three parilhes, including the fuburbs, and three thouftnd 
fix hundred and twenty fouls. Befides the collegiate 
church, here are feveral other churches, together with 
fome pious inftitutions-. 
CONEMAU'GH, a town of United America, in the ftate 
of Pennfylvania : fifteen miles eaft of fort Ligonier. 
CONEMAU'GH RIVER, and Little Conemaugh, are 
the head waters of Kifkemanitas, in Pennfylvania: after 
palling through Laurel-hill and Chefnut-ridge, Cone¬ 
maugh takes that name and empties into the Alleghany, 
twenty-nine miles north-eaft ofPittlburg. It is navigable 
for boats, and there is a portage of eighteen miles between 
it and the Frankftown branch of Juniata river. 
CO'NERFREIT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria, and Upper Palatinate: thirty-four miles north- 
j\orth-eaft of Amberg. 
CONES'SI,/ The bark of an Eaft-Indian tree, faid to 
be a fpecific in diarrhoeas. 
CO'NEY. See Cony. 
To CONFA'BULATE, v. n. [confabulo, Lat.] To talk 
eafily or carelefsiy together; to chat; to prattle. 
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CONFABULA'TfoN, f. [conjfabulalio,Li>.t .] Eafy con- 
verfttion ; cheerful and carelels taik. 
CONFA'EULATORY, adj. Belonging to talk or 
prattle. 
CONFA'LON,/ A fraternity of feculars in the church 
of Rome, called penitents. 
CONFANCA'TION,/. [confancatia, Lat.] Solemnizing 
marriage by eating bread together. 
CONFARRE-A'TIdN, /'. [ confarntatio , Lat.] A cere¬ 
mony among the ancient Romans, uled in t|ie marriage 
of persons whole children were deftined for the honour of 
the priefthood. Ccnfarreation was the mod facred of the 
tlii'ee modes of contracting marriage among that people : 
and confided, according to -Servius, in this, that the 
pout if ex maximus and fiamen dialis joined and contrasted 
the man and woman, by .making them eat of the fame 
cake of firlted bread: whence the term far , fignirying 
meal or flour. Ulpian fays, it confided in the offering 
up of fome pure wheaten bread, and rehearflng a certain 
formula, in prelence often witriefles. Dionyfius H'alicar- 
nalfeus adds, that the hulband and wife ate of the fame 
wheaten bread, and threw' part on the viStims. 
To CONTECT, <v. a. [. cpnfiettu: , Lat.] To make up into 
fweetmeats; to preferve with fugar. It feems now ccr- 
ruped into comfit. 
CON'FECT,/ A fweetmeat.—At fupper eat a pippin 
roafted, and lweetened with fugar of roles and carraway 
confetti. Harvey. 
CONFECTION,/. [confettio , Lat.] A preparation of 
fruit, or juice of fruit, with fugar; a fweetmeat: 
Haft thou not learn’d me to preferve ? yea fo, 
That our great king himlelf doth woo me oft 
For my conp'ettion ?. Skahefipeare. 
An afiemblage of different ingredients; a compofition ; a 
mixture: 
Of beft things then, wdiat world (hall yield confiettion 
To liken her ? Shahefipeare. 
CONFECTIONER, fi. One whofe trade is to make 
confeftions or fweetmeats: 
Nature’s confettioner, the bee, 
Whofe fuckers are moil! alchimy. 
The ftill of his refining mold 
Minting the garden into gold. ' Cleavcland. 
CONFECTIONERY, fi. Sweetmeats, the produce of 
the confectioner's art. 
CONFECTOR,/ Among the ancient Romans, a gla¬ 
diator, hired to fight in the amphitheatre againl! beads; 
thence alfo denominated beJUarius. The confettores were 
thus called a conficiendis bejliis, from their difpatching arid, 
killing beads. The Greeks called them tsayaZo Acs, daring, 
ralh, defpfrate ; whence the Latins borrowed the appella¬ 
tions parabolani and parabolarii. The early Chriftians w'ere 
Ibnietimes condemned to this fort of combat. 
CONFEDERACY,/, [confederation, Fr. ficedus, Lat.] 
A league ; a contrail by which leveral perlons or bodies 
of men engage to fiupport each other; union; engage¬ 
ment; federal compact.-—Judas fent them to Rome, to 
make a league of' amity and confederacy with them. 1 
Macs. viii. jj.‘ 
The friendlhips of the world are oft 
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleafure. Addifon. 
CONFEDERACY, in law, is when tw 'o or more com¬ 
bine together to do aily damage or injury to another, or 
to do any unlawful aft. And falfe confederacy between 
divers perfons lhall be punilhed, though nothing be put 
in execution : but this confederacy, punilhable by law 
before it is executed, ought to have thefe incidents; firft, 
it mull be declared by lome matter of proiecution, as 
by making of bonds, or promiles the one to the other; 
fecondly, it lliould be malicious, as for unjuft revenge; 
thirdly, it ought to be falfe againl! an innocent per,on 3. 
