Definition of cone

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Cone (n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form..

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Subcontrary :: Subcontrary (a.) Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel..
Coniferous :: Coniferous (a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress..
#NAME? :: -ess () A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress..
Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.
Jaconet :: "Jaconet (n.) A thin cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc..
Comb :: Comb (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat..
Cone-in-cone :: Cone-in-cone (a.) 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..
Hawker :: Hawker (n.) A falconer.
Astringer :: Astringer (n.) A falconer who keeps a goshawk.
Lambert Pine :: Lambert pine () The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States..
Syconium :: Sycones (n. pl.) A division of calcareous sponges.
Yew :: Yew (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards..
Squamous :: Squamous () Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale..
Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) A female deaco.
Lactucone :: Lactucone (n.) A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium..
Falconet :: Falconet (n.) One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.
Leash :: Leash (n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog..
Anconeal :: Anconeal (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.
Fud :: Fud (n.) The tail of a hare, coney, etc..
Dioecia :: Dioecia (n. pl.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries..
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