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high tide; and here the tide ebbs and flows but about 
eight incites. Three miles above that city, the river is 
contracted to about forty rods in breadth, by two high 
mountains. On almoft every other part of the river the 
banks are low, and fpread into fine extenfive meadows. 
In the fpring floods, which generally happen in May, 
thefe meadows are covered with water. At Hartford, 
the water fometimes rifes twenty feet above the common 
furface of the river, and the water having no other out¬ 
let but the above-mentioned ftrait, it is fometimes two 
or three weeks before it returns to its ufual bed. Thefe 
floods add nothing to the depth of water on the bar at 
the mouth of the river, as the bar lies too far off in the 
found to be affefted by them. This river is navigable 
to Hartford city, upwards of fifty miles from its mouth ; 
and the produce of the country for two hundred miles 
above it is brought thither in boats. The boats which 
are ufed in this bufinefs are flat-bottomed, long, and nar¬ 
row, and of fo light a make as to be portable in carts. 
Before the conftruftion of locks and canals on this river, 
they were taken out at three different carrying places, all 
of which made fifteen miles. It is expefted that in a few 
years the obftruftions will be all removed. Sturgeon, 
falrnon, and fliad, are caught in great plenty in their 
feafon, from the mouth of the river upwards, excepting 
fturgeon, which do not afcend the upper falls ; befides a 
variety of fmall fifh, fuch as pike, carp, perch, &c. 
CONNEC'TIVELY, adv. In conjunction; in union; 
jointly; conjointly; conjunftly,—The people’s power 
is great and indifputable, whenever they can unite con- 
ncElivtly, or by deputation, to exert it. Swift. 
CON'NEI.S, a town of United America, in the date of 
Pennfylvania: twenty-five miles weft-fouth-weft of Cham- 
herfburg. 
CONNE'RE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Sarte : four leagues eaft-north-eaft of Le Mans. 
To CONNE'X, v. a. [ connexion , Lat.] To join or link 
together; to fallen to each other.—Thofe birds who are 
taught fome words or lentences, cannot connex their words 
or lentences in coherence with the matter which they 
dignify. Hale. 
Balls fly, 
By chains connex'd, and with deftruftive fweep 
Behead whole troops at once. Philips. 
CONNEX'ION, f. [from convex , or connexio, Lat.] 
Union ; junftion"; the aft of faflening together ; the date 
of being fadened together.—There mud be a future date, 
where the eternal and infeparable connexion between vir¬ 
tue and happinefs (hall be manifefted. Atterbury. 
My heart, which by a fecret harmony 
Still moves with thine, join’d in connexion fvveet. Milton. 
Jud relation to fomething precedent or fubfequent; con- 
fequence, of argumentation ; coherence.—Contemplation 
of human nature doth, by a neceffary connexion and chain 
of caufes, carry us up to the Deity. Hale. 
A confcious, wife, reflefting caufe, 
That can deliberate, means eleft, and find ' 
Their due connexion with the end defign’d. Blackmon. 
CONNEX'IVE, adj. Having the force of connexion ; 
conjunftive.'—The predicate and fubjeft are joined in a 
form of words by connexive particles. Watts. 
CONNICTA'TION, f. [_conniclo, Lat.] A winking. 
CON'NIE (La), a river of France, which runs into 
the Loire a little below Chateaudun. 
CONNI'VANCE,y. The aft of winking. Not in vfc. 
Voluntary blindnefs ; pretended ignorance ; forbearance. 
•—Difobedience, having gained one degree of liberty, will 
demand another : every vice interprets a connivance , an 
approbation. South .—.A connivance to admit half, will 
produce ruin. Swift. 
To CONNI'VE, v. n. \_conniveo, Lat.] To wink.—-This 
artill is to teach them how to nod judiciouflyfto connive 
with either eye. Spectator. —To'pretend blindnefs or ig¬ 
norance ; to forbear; to pafs uncenfured.—The licetw 
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tioufnefs of inferiors, and the remilTnefs of fuperiors, 
the one violates, and the other connives. Decay of Piety. 
CONNOI'E BAY, a bay on the fouth coatt of New¬ 
foundland : fifty miles eatl of Cape Ray. 
CONNOISSEU'R,/ [Fr.J A judge; a critic. It is 
often ufed of a pretended critic : 
Your leffon learnt, you’ll be fecure 
To get the name of connoiffeur. ' Swift. 
CON'NON, a river of France, called alfo Aa, which 
runs into the Beuvron: fix miles fouth-eaft of Beuvron. 
CON'NOR, a river of the ifland of Jamaica, which 
runs into the lea, between Rocky Point and Port Morant- 
CON'NOR, a town of Ireland, in the county of An¬ 
trim, the fee of a bi(hop, founded in the fifth century, 
and united with the fee of Down in 1454, under the 
archbifliop of Armagh : fix miles north of Antrim. 
CON'NOR (Bernard), a learped phylician, born in 
the county of Kerry, in Ireland, in 1666. Having de¬ 
termined to apply himfelf to the liudy of phyfic, he went 
to France, and refided fome time in the univerfity of 
Montpelier. Afterwards he went to Paris, where he 
obtained great (kill in medicine, anatomy, and chemiftry. 
From thence he travelled to Venice with the two fons of 
the high-chancellor of Poland; and then;, taking a tour 
through great part of Germany, went to Warfaw, where 
he was made phylician to king John Sobiefki. In 1695, 
he came to England, read a courfe of leftures in London 
and Oxford, and became member of the royal fociety, 
and college of phyficians ; afterwards, being invited to 
Cambridge, he read public leftures there, and made va¬ 
rious experiments in chemiftry. He has rendered him¬ 
felf memorable for a philofophical and medical treatife 
in Latin, intitled, Evangelium Medici, the Phyfician’s Got- 
pel ; tending to explain the miracles performed by Chrift 
as natural events, upon the principles of natural philo. 
fophy. He wrote alfo a hiftory of Poland ; and died in 
1698, aged thirty-two. 
To CON'NOTATE, v. a. [con and ncta, Lat.] To de¬ 
foliate fomething befides itfelf; to imply; to infer.—■ 
God’s forefeeing doth not include or connotate predeter¬ 
mining, any more than I decree with my intellect- 
Hammond. 
CONNOTA'TION,/! Implication of fomething be¬ 
fides itfelf; inference ; illation.—By reafon of the co- 
exiftence of one thing with another, there ariieth a va¬ 
rious relation or connotation between them. Hale. 
To CONNO'TE, v. a. [ con and nota, Lat.] To imply ; 
to betoken ; to include.—.Good, in the general notion of 
it, connotes alfo a certain fuitablenefs of it to fome other 
thing. South. 
CONNU'BIAL, adj. \_connubialis, Lat.] Matrimonial; 
nuptial; pertaining to marriage ; conjugal: 
Should fecond love a pleating flame infpire, 
And the chafte queen connubial rites require. Pope. 
CON'NUTRITE, f. [from con and nutrior, to be nou- 
riftied with.] In medicine, is applied to thofe diforders 
which are born with us; as the evil, and fome kinds of 
infanity. 
CONOBE'A,/! in botany. See Conopea. 
CONOCARPODEN'DRON. See Protea. 
CONOCAR'PUS, f. [from y.uvoq and Ktxfjroq, cone-- 
fruited.] In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
monogynia, n’atural order aggregatae. The generic cha¬ 
racters are—Galyx : perianthium one-leafed, fuperior, 
very fmall, five-parted,■acute, ereft : divifions tubulate. 
Corolla: petals five, converging, or none. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments, either five or ten, tubulate, ereft ; anthene glo. 
bofe. Piftillum : germ large, comprelfed, obtufe, infe¬ 
rior ; ftyle tingle, fhort; ftigma obtufe. Pericarpium ; 
none, diftinft from the feed. Seed : tingle, obovate, with 
a membranaceous thick margin projecting on each tide. 
•—Effential Character. Petals, five, or none ; calyx, bell, 
form; feeds, naked, folitary, inferior; flowers, aggre¬ 
gate, except in the third fort. 
Spears ,, 
