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/kəʊn/, U.S. /koʊn/ I. The geometrical figure.
1. figurative.1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 25 Their hierarchies acuminating still higher and higher in a cone of Prelaty.
a. A solid figure or body, of which the base is a circle, and the summit a point, and every point in the intervening surface is in a straight line between the vertex and the circumference of the base.Called a right circular cone when the vertex is on the perpendicular to the centre of the base; an oblique cone, when it lies without it.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > conical quality > cone
cone1570
pyramid1603
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > cone
cone1570
pyramid1603
scalene cone1684
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 316v A cone is a solide or bodely figure which is made, when one of the sides of a rectangle triangle..which contayne the right angle, abiding fixed, the triangle is moued about.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. ix. 247 His face was radiant, and dispersing beames like many hornes and cones about his head. View more context for this quotation
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 19 The shape and fashion of his head, Was like a con, or pyramid.
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 53 Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone Wanting its proper base to stand upon.
1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 358 Any cone is the third part of a cylinder, or of a prism, of equal base and altitude.
b. Geometry. A solid generated by a straight line which always passes through a fixed point called the vertex, and describes any fixed curve (not necessarily a circle).
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > cone > with any curve as base
cone1865
1865 W. S. Aldis Elem. Solid Geom. §34.
1877 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Integral Calculus (ed. 3) 295 The equation..represents a cone such that the moment of inertia is the same for each of its edges. Such a cone is called an equimomental cone of the body.
c. A conical mass of any substance.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > conical quality > cone > conical mass
cone1585
1585 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 355 The next stream..moveth from the 4 sides ward, and make (in manner) 4 Triangles, or rather Cones, of water.
1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 113 Bullets commonly beat out a Cone of Wall, whose Vertex is in the Bullets Entry.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 21 The Servants cut our Bread into Cones, Cylinders,..and..other Mathematical Figures.
1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse v. i. 63 The life within me, It sinks and wavers like this cone of flame.
1874 W. B. Dawkins Cave Hunting ii. 64 The shaft stands on a cone of dripstone.
d. Physical Geography. A conical or fan-shaped alluvial deposit formed by a stream where its bed becomes less steep; esp. a relatively small, steep-sided deposit such as is formed at the mouth of a ravine. Cf. fan n.1 5e.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water
roddon1857
platform-mud1863
cone1864
fan1864
levee1870
alluvial fan1873
apron1889
sand-wash1901
scroll1902
spillbank1909
sheet-flow1928
point bar1945
1864 J. von Haast Rep. Form. Canterbury Plains 19 Thinking that giving such a name [sc. ‘delta’] to the alluvial accumulations of the rivers in this island, showing some peculiarities, would impart an erroneous impression, Dr. Hector and myself, in drawing up a synopsis of the geological formations of New Zealand, have adopted for the formation of those subaerial accumulations the expression ‘Fan’, for those of regular water-courses; and of ‘Half-cone’, for those of intermittent mountain torrents, and we shall for the future use these two expressions.
1890 Gilbert in U.S. Geol. Surv. Monogr. I. 81 The ‘alluvial fan’ of Drew is the ‘alluvial cone’ of American Geologists, and there would be some reason for preferring ‘fan’ to ‘cone’ if it were necessary to employ a single term only. It is convenient to use them as synonyms, employing ‘cone’ when the angle of slope is high and ‘fan’ when it is low.
1945 C. A. Cotton Geomorphol. (ed. 4) xv. 198 Very steep fans are called alluvial cones.., and there is a transition through these from alluvial fans to talus slopes.
e. = cornet n.1 5d originally U.S.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of
pistachio ice?1790
iced tea1827
tutti-frutti1834
brown-bread ice1846
vanilla ice1846
vanille ice1846
Neapolitan ice1867
Neapolitan ice cream1868
hokey-pokey1884
strawberry ice cream1890
choc chip1903
horn1908
Tortoni1911
slider1915
choc bar1919
cone1920
Eskimo pie1921
brick1922
brickette1922
Eskimo1922
choc ice1924
cornet1926
briquette1927
gelato1932
ninety-nine1935
wafer1936
fudgicle1938
ripple1939
tub1939
vanilla1955
double dip1965
1920 Outing July 246/2 Ray licked the ice cream from out his dripping cone.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 166 Tempting fruit. Ice cones. Cream.
1926 Amer. Speech 1 246/2 In England an ice-cream cone is called a cornet.
1949 Manch. Guardian Weekly 18 Aug. 3/1 Americans..have as little idea what the dollar crisis is about as a British child sucking an ice-cream cone at a seaside ventriloquist.
1967 A. J. Marshall in L. Deighton London Dossier 143 You can stand licking a double Marsala cone.
2. Optics.
a. cone of rays n. [= French cône de lumière] a pencil of rays of light diverging from an illuminating point and falling upon a surface.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > [noun] > rays or waves > set of
pencil1665
optic pencil1704
cone of rays1706
sheaf1863
wave group1923
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics ii. 17 The mirror receives only..a cone of rays..whose base is the circular mirror.
1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 200 The innumerable rays of light, issuing from any point at c, towards any surface in the situation ab, are said to form a cone or pencil of diverging light.
1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica iii. 27 The sun pouring down a cone of yellow rays.
b. cone of shade n. [compare Latin coni umbrae (Lucretius)] Astronomy the conical shadow projected into space by a planet on the side turned from the sun.
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > eclipse > shadow
cone of shade1854
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 776 Now had night measur'd with her shaddowie Cone Half way up Hill this vast Sublunar Vault. View more context for this quotation
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) i. 13 Night's shadowy cone reluctant melts away.]
1854 L. Tomlinson tr. D. F. J. Arago Pop. Lect. Astron. 147 The moon's cone of shade.
1879 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. (new ed.) 101 The shape of the shadow [of the moon] is in fact, that of a cone—hence the term ‘cone of shadow.’
II. Applied to various cone-shaped objects.Sense 3 is the original in Greek, whence the geometrical sense was taken; it is, in its English history, quite independent of sense 1, and perhaps the source of 4; the later senses of this group are popular or technical applications of 1.
3. The more or less conical fruit of pines and firs; a dry scaly multiple fruit, formed by hard persistent imbricated scales covering naked seeds; a strobile.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir- or pine-cone
pine nuteOE
nutOE
pineapplea1398
cone1562
cone-nut1562
pineapple nut1568
clog1577
chat1697
fir-apple1712
pine cone1723
strobilus1753
strobile1777
fir-bob1854
fir-ball1878
dennebol1909
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 87 Πιτυς..hathe a lesse con or nut or appell [than πευκη].
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxxvii. 770 The fruite of the Pine is called in Greke κῶνος: in Latine, Conus, and Nux Pinea: in Englishe, a Cone, or Pine Apple.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1532 It [cedar] beareth cones that grow upright, like as the Firre doth.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxi The Kernels, and Nuts, which may be gotten out of their Cones and Clogs.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 200 The larger feeds upon the cones of the pine-tree.
1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xxxiii. 18 A light spear topped with a cypress cone.
1863 C. A. Johns Home Walks 63 The season when the cones of the Scotch fir split and discharge their seed.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 453 In order not to introduce confusion into the definition of a flower, the whole of what is found on the axis, in other words, the whole cone, must be considered a single flower.
4. A cocoon. ? Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > cocoon
clew1599
cod1600
husk1600
patella1671
follicle1681
dop1700
scabbard1714
cone1774
cocoon1815
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > cocoon
clew1599
cod1600
cocoon1699
spider-bag1728
cone1804
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 51 The cone on which it [sc. the silkworm] spins, is formed for covering it..in the aurelia state.
1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) III. 225 Some of them..spin webs or cones, in which they inclose themselves.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 280 Though she have..spun a cradle-cone through which she pricks Her passage, and proves peacock-butterfly.
5. Conchology. A marine shell of the genus Conus, or family Conidæ, of Gastropods; also cone-shell. [ < French cône.]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Conidae > member of
cone1770
wax taper1815
1770 W. Huddesford Lister's Hist. Conchyliorum Index 31 Cone Shell. 1 Black Tiger Cone..7 The Girdle or Bastard Cone Shell.
1856 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca iii. 353 Since the period of the English chalk-formation, there have been living..Cones and Olives in the ‘London basin’.
1860 L. Reeve Elem. Conchol. I. 7 The inner spiral partitions of a Cone in an early stage of growth, are thick and solid.
6.
a. A cone-shaped building enclosing a glass-furnace, tile-kiln, or the like.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific shape > [noun]
quadrangle1596
rotund1606
rotundo1614
camera1633
rotunda1648
tholosc1660
umbrella1680
octagon1767
round tower1790
cone1791
flat-iron1862
tetragon1884
tempietto1896
tetrapylon1904
igloo1956
shoebox1968
society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] > type of
cone1791
chicken factory1852
maquiladora1978
maquila1979
1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 ii. 1054 A newly-finished glass-house..the cone being 120 feet in height, suddenly fell.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 655 The crown-glass furnace..is an oblong square, built in the centre of a brick cone.
b. A conical architectural structure.
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1873 D. G. Rossetti Burden of Nineveh Since those thy temples, court and cone, Rose far in desert history.
7. A cone-shaped mountain-top or peak; esp. a volcanic peak, formed by the accumulation of ejected material round the crater.Applied as a proper name to peaks of the Rocky Mountains; e.g. Clayton Cone (Colorado), Lone Cone (Idaho).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > volcano > [noun] > cone or peak
pike1555
puy1827
cone1830
hornito1830
monticule1830
cinder-cone1849
parasitic cone1863
mud cone1868
piton1886
driblet cone1888
sommac1910
shield1937
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun] > summit > conical
pike1555
pap1613
cone1830
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 327 The..cones of single eruption near Clermont in Auvergne.
1852 W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson Life & Epist. St. Paul II. xxiii. 359 They would see on the left the volcanic cone and smoke of Stromboli.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 21 At a distance, was the grand cone of the Weisshorn.
8. Mechanics. Applied to various cone-shaped parts or apparatus.
a. A cone-shaped drum, used for communicating different speeds to a lathe, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > of specific shape
cheek1487
ward1599
screw worm1648
ball1675
swan-neck1686
cone1832
goose-neck1843
spider1860
concave1874
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 49 When the strap takes its position on the largest part of [the driving cone], it will apply to the smallest part of the driven cone, and the speed of the lathe will be at its maximum. The position of the strap upon the cone is regulated at pleasure by a winch.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 607 [Pottery] The apex of the one cone corresponds to the base of the other, which allows the strap to retain the same degree of tension, while it is made to traverse horizontally, in order to vary the speed of the lathe at pleasure.
b. In Spinning, one of the taper drums in the head-stock of a mule, called the backing-off and drawing-up cones, respectively.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 161 When the wool has arrived by a spiral circulation near the base of the cone, it is deposited upon an endless apron.
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c. The vent-plug which is screwed into the barrel of a firearm.
9. Meteorology. A cone-shaped vessel, hoisted as a foul-weather-signal.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > warning obtained by observation > signal exhibited > specific storm signals
storm-bell1837
drum1860
storm-cone1863
storm-drum1866
cone1875
storm flag1896
1875 Chambers's Jrnl. cxxxiii. 8 A cone hoisted with the point upwards denotes an approaching wind veering round from the north-west by north to the south-east.
1882 Daily News 30 Dec. 3/6 (The weather) The south cone is still up in the west, south, and east, and the north cone was hoisted in the north this afternoon.
10. Physiology. One of the minute cone-shaped bodies which form, with the ‘rods’, the bacillary layer of the retina.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > retina > rods or cones
rod1844
cone1867
rod cell1877
myoid1900
1867 J. Marshall Outl. Physiol. I. 540 The external layer..consists of a stratum of evenly-disposed, transparent, colourless, rods..intermixed with other larger bodies, named cones.
1879 Macmillan's Mag. 131/1 That the layer of rods and cones is the part of the eye in which waves of ether are converted into sensations of light and colour has long been known.
11. Short for cone-wheat n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant
spelta1000
farc1420
ador?1440
flaxen wheat?1523
Peak-wheat?1523
red wheat?1523
white wheat?1523
duck-bill wheat1553
zea1562
alica1565
buck1577
amelcorn1578
horse-flower1578
tiphe1578
pollard1580
rivet1580
Saracen's corn1585
French wheat1593
Lammas-wheat1594
starch corn1597
St. Peter's corn1597
frumenty1600
secourgeon1600
polwheat1601
duck-wheat1611
kidneys of wheat1611
ograve wheat1616
soft wheat1640
cone-wheat1677
Lammas1677
Poland wheat1686
Saracen corn1687
pole rivet1707
Smyrna wheat1735
hard wheat1757
hen corn1765
velvet wheat1771
white straw1771
nonpareil1805
thick-set wheat1808
cone1826
farro1828
Polish wheat1832
velvet-ear wheat1837
sarrasin1840
mummy wheat1842
snowdrop1844
Red Fife1857
flint-wheat1859
dinkel1866
thick-set1875
spring1884
macaroni wheat1901
einkorn1904
marquis1906
durum1908
emmer1908
hedgehog wheat1909
speltoid1939
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Oct. 178 It is the white cone that Mr. Budd sows.
12. A cone-shaped warning sign placed on the roadway, etc., and used in (temporary) road traffic control. Frequently with qualifying word as traffic cone etc. Originally U.S.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > cone or bollard
bollard1925
traffic cone1949
cone1953
1953 Construction & Maintenance Bull. (Texas Highway Dept.) No. 24. 22 (heading) Safety through use of traffic cones.
1953 Construction & Maintenance Bull. (Texas Highway Dept.) No. 24. 22 By proper placement of these cones, a work area can be isolated... The cones should be set to channelize traffic in the proper lane to bypass the work area.
1973 Times 1 Aug. 12/1 Tyres had been converted into traffic cones.
1976 A. Price War Game (1979) ii. iii. 217 Stacks of police—no parking cones were dotted in readiness round the village.
1984 R. Ormerod Seeing Red i. 7 We've had three [cars] go over that drop..in spite of all the winkers and cones.
III. A conical apex or point.† 14. The apex of the heart. Obsolete.† 15. † b. Heraldry. Each of the angular divisions of a shield formed by a number of lines (e.g. 12) radiating from the centre; the central point in which these meet; any point (e.g. at the centre of the base, where similar angular divisions meet). Obsolete. (Apparently the earliest use in English.)
13. The conical top of a helmet or other headpiece. [So. Greek κῶνος, Latin cōnus.]
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > top > types of
cone1604
steeple-crown1684
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > crest
crestc1325
timbre1478
helmet-crest1509
timbrel1513
cone1737
comb1834
1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. sig. D A Hat of delicate wooll, whose top ended in a Cone, and was thence called Apex, according to that of Lucan.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 88 Leather head-peeces..in the middest whereof ariseth a Cone resembling the forme of a Tyara.
1737 R. Glover Leonidas iii. 304 A pointed casque O'er each grim visage rear'd its iron cone.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 128 He smote him on the helmet's cone.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun] > other parts of
heart-rootc1390
cone1615
sinus venosus1836
cor pulmonale1857
pacemaker1910
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 363 Through the outward surface of the heart euen to the Cone or point thereof.
1684 R. Boyle Exper. Porosity of Bodies v. 48 The motions of the Cone, as they call it, or Mucro of the Heart.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 91 Down to the Cone of the Youth's open Heart.
a. transferred. An apex or vertex, as of a cone or pyramid; a point at which lines converge. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > highest point or top > pointed
pin?a1475
apex1590
punctilio1601
cone1611
cuspis1646
cusp1647
peak1785
the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > [noun] > point of convergence
confluity1623
cone1705
meeting-point1818
conflux1826
confluence1828
nodal point1862
meeting-place1897
node1902
node point1957
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Angle, an angle, cone, or corner.
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 57 It is the Top of this Triangle, the very Cone of this Pyramis.
a1641 H. Spelman Anc. Govt. Eng. in Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ (1698) 49 As..each side of an Arch descendeth alike from the Coane or top-point.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 14 The Blood-Vessels..all terminate in a Cone.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > division of shield > angular division of shield
cone1486
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > division of shield > angular division of shield > point in which cones meet
cone1486
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. E iv b The lawist corner or the coone of tharmys that is to say the lawyst poynt of the shelde..In all armys contrari conyt all the conys..mete to gedyr conally in the middis of the shelde.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. E v a All the colouris of theys armys meete to gedir at oon coone, that is to say at the myddyst poyntt of the shelde.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. E v b Now folowyth of certan armys in the wich iij. pilis mete to gedyr in oon coone.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. Also cone-wheat n., cones n.
cone-bearing adj.
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1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 37 There are several other cone-bearing trees.
1882 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 549 The cone-bearing Araucaria.
cone-billed adj.
cone-like adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > conical
pineatea1400
conical1570
conic1614
cone-like1665
sugar-loafed1702
top-like?1711
coniformc1790
extinguisher-shaped1840
cone-shaped1851
coned1878
extinguisher-like1881
piniform1890
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 206 A Cone~like Heap of Pibble Stones.
cone-shaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > conical
pineatea1400
conical1570
conic1614
cone-like1665
sugar-loafed1702
top-like?1711
coniformc1790
extinguisher-shaped1840
cone-shaped1851
coned1878
extinguisher-like1881
piniform1890
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. i. 12 Here, a cone-shaped peak soars up.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 4 Its..cone-shaped yew-tree arbour.
C2. † cone-nut n. Obsolete = 3; hence †cone-nut-bearing.
cone-anchor n. a conical drag employed by vessels in rough weather.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > drogue
drift-sail1627
stop-water1794
drift-anchor1874
drogue1874
sea-anchor1877
cone-anchor1902
watersail1925
1902 Nature 4 Sept. 447 M. Heureux dropped his cone-anchor and waited until a tug-boat..threw a rope to the car, by which the balloon was tugged easily.
cone-bit n. a conical boring-bit.
cone-cheese n. a wooden bobbin in the form of a cone on which yarn is spun.
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1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 100 The bottle bobbins or cone cheeses..containing the yarn are suitably supported on a stand near the top of the machine.
cone-clutch n. a friction clutch with a conical contact surface.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > clutches
bayonet1798
clutch1814
gland1825
friction-clutch1842
disc clutch1859
shifter1869
cone-clutch1874
clutch-box1875
jaw clutch1893
plate clutch1906
band clutch1910
single-plate clutch1926
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 578/2 The cone-clutch consists of a tapered cylindrical plug sliding on a fast feather in one shaft, [etc.].
1908 Westm. Gaz. 5 Mar. 4/2 The drive from engine to gear-box is through a leather-faced, self-contained cone-clutch.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Feb. 4/2 The positive dogs being withdrawn before the leather cone-clutch is disengaged.
1930 Engineering 11 July 41/2 From the engine, the drive is taken through a cone clutch and spur gearing to a three-speed gear box.
1963 R. F. Webb Motorists' Dict. 63 Cone clutch, an obsolete type of clutch mechanism at one time popular on early vehicles. It consisted of a drum attached to the engine shaft in place of or part of the flywheel. The inside of the drum was tapered slightly to mate with a cone-shaped friction disc.
cone-compasses n. a pair of compasses with a cone or bullet on one leg, to set in a hole.
cone drawing n. a method of drawing cotton (see 8b).
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1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 136 In cone drawing..all these defects are avoided.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 796/2 Cone drawing follows closely the English system..and is widely used in the United States... The bobbin is driven independently of the spindle and flyer.
cone-flower n. a name for the genus Rudbeckia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers
ox-eyea1400
starwort?a1450
Jupiter's beard1567
goldenrod1568
achillea1597
blue camomile1597
blue daisy1597
cineraria1597
hog's bean1597
jackanapes on horseback1597
sea-starwort1597
sultan flower1629
mouse-ear1696
aster1706
Canada goldenrod1731
ageratum1737
rudbeckia1751
coreopsis1753
melampodium1754
Aaron's rod1760
zinnia1761
Michaelmas daisy1767
China aster1785
New England aster1785
catananche1798
sea-aster1812
cosmea1813
cosmos1813
gazania1813
erigeron1815
gousblom1822
Christmas daisy1829
rhodanthe1834
tassel-flower1836
ligularia1839
old maid1839
mountain daisy1848
purple coneflower1848
acroclinium1852
sea ox-eye1856
thimble-weed1860
helipterum1862
treasure-flower1866
Swan River daisy1873
blanket flower1879
cone-flower1879
blue marguerite1882
Solidago1883
yellow-top1887
Gaillardia1888
gerbera1889
youth and old age1889
pussytoes1892
niggerhead1893
Transvaal daisy1899
Barberton daisy1906
onion grass1909
ursinia1928
Cupid's dart1930
Livingstone daisy1932
1879 C. Pickering Chron. Hist. Plants 941 Rudbeckia laciniata of North-east America, A cone flower.
purple cone-flower n. a name for the genus Echinacea.
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1857 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (rev. ed.) 214 Echinacea, Purple Cone-flower.
cone-gamba n. an organ stop with conical pipes.
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1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. xvi. 133 Messrs. Hill and Son have a stop..named the ‘Cone Gamba’, which they frequently use in their organs.
cone-gear n. a method of transmitting motion, by means of two cones rolling together.
cone-granule n. a corpuscle connected with a cone of the retina.
cone-head n. a garden name for Strobilanthes.
cone-in-cone n. a peculiar geological structure, presenting the appearance of a number of cones one packed inside another.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > cone or cone-in-cone
cone-in-cone1877
cone-sheet1924
shatter cone1933
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 45/2 Coal is perfectly amorphous, the nearest approach to anything like crystalline structure being a compound fibrous grouping resembling that of gypsum or arragonite, which occurs in some of the steam coals of S. Wales, and is locally known as ‘cone in cone’.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 313 That the more complex structure known as ‘Cone in cone’ may be due to the action of pressure upon concretions in the course of formation.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 61 Steam or anthracite coal exhibiting a peculiar fibrous structure passing into a singular toothed arrangement of the particles called cone-in-cone coal or crystallised coal.
1921 Brit. Mus. Return 156 Cone-in-cone structure from Barf Hill, Keswick.
1954 G. W. Himus Dict. Geol. 30 Cone-in-cone structure, a concretionary structure, found in marls, ironstones, coals, etc., consisting of the development of a succession of concentric cones, resulting from radial crystallization about a common axis.
cone-joint n. a strong pipe-joint, tapering from the centre to the two ends each of which is inserted into the end of one of the pipes.
cone-nose n. a name for the hemipterous Insect genus Conorhinus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir- or pine-cone
pine nuteOE
nutOE
pineapplea1398
cone1562
cone-nut1562
pineapple nut1568
clog1577
chat1697
fir-apple1712
pine cone1723
strobilus1753
strobile1777
fir-bob1854
fir-ball1878
dennebol1909
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 28 The bunghes [of the larch] are lesse then any other kynde conenutberyng tre hath.
cone-plate n. (see quot.).
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1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 120/1 Cone-plate, a strong plate of cast iron fixed vertically to the bed of a lathe, with a conical hole in it, to form a support for the end of a shaft which it is required to bore.
cone-pulley n. a pulley shaped like a truncated cone, or one consisting of sheaves of different diameters, for imparting different speeds to a lathe, etc.
cone-seat n. a piece of iron forming a seat for the ‘cone’ in firearms.
cone-sheet n. Geology (see quots.).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > cone or cone-in-cone
cone-in-cone1877
cone-sheet1924
shatter cone1933
1924 Mem. Geol. Surv. Scotl. xix. 221 Acid Centrally Inclined Sheets or Cone-Sheets..a cone-sheet complex in which the characteristic feature is an assemblage of sheets inclined rather steeply towards a common centre.
1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) xi. 261 Intrusions in the form of concentric arcs or rings are of two distinct types... One type consists of cone-sheets, which have the form of parts of inverted cones dipping inwards towards a common focus.
cone-shell n. (see sense 5).
cone tree n. a coniferous tree, a conifer.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun]
cone tree1657
conifer1851
leylandii1988
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden v Of all the cone trees this only [larch] is found without leaves in the winter.
cone-valve n. a hollow valve with a conical face.
cone-wheel n. a wheel shaped like a truncated cone, for transmitting a variable or adjustable motion to another wheel.
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† conen.2
Obsolete.
A fissure, cleft, chink.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > chap or crack
rhagadesOE
chap1398
chine1398
rupture?a1425
chapping1540
rift1543
chame1559
cleft1576
chop1578
crepature1582
cone1584
chink1597
fent1597
chawn1601
star1607
hacka1610
kin1740
sand-crack1895
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xvi. v. 480 Witches can..come in at a little coane, or a hole in a glasse windowe.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xxi. 352 This also is very soveraigne for Cones, Cracks, and Chops in the heeles of the horse.
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conev.1
/kəʊn/, U.S. /koʊn/ 1. transitive. To shape like a cone or segment of a cone. See coned adj. 2.
2. intransitive. To bear cones, as a fir-tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [verb (intransitive)] > bear cones
cone1888
1888 Sc. Leader 9 Nov. 7 The spruce firs had coned freely.
3. transitive. To catch or pick up (an aircraft) at the apex of a cone formed by searchlight beams (or tracer shells, etc.).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > catch in beam or tracer
cone1943
1943 Times Weekly 24 Nov. 6/3 Searchlights were also effectively blocked by the cloud and, unable to cone a particular aircraft in the beams, the gunners could only fire a barrage and hope for results.
1944 H. Hawton Night Bombing vii. 104 The number of aircraft that can be coned, even in the target area, is comparatively small if the raid is both heavy and concentrated.
1944 Times 22 June 2/1 Red and white tracer shot up in streams, coning the intruder, but it flew straight through it unharmed.
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† conev.2
Obsolete or dialect.
a. intransitive. To gape or split open, to crack or chink.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crack, split, or cleave
chinea700
to-chinec725
cleavea1225
to-cleavec1275
rivec1330
to-slentc1380
to-sundera1393
cracka1400
rifta1400
chapc1420
crevec1450
break1486
slave?1523
chink1552
chop1576
coame1577
cone1584
slat1607
cleft1610
splita1625
checka1642
chicka1642
flaw1648
shale1712
vent1721
spalt1731
star1842
seam1880
tetter1911
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. vii. 227 With charmes she makes the earth to cone [L. haec cantu finditque solum].
1735 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (E.D.S.) Cone, to crack or split with the sun, as timber does.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 35 Cone, to crack or split with the sun.
b. transitive. To fissure.
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1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 35 Inuading fire the vpper Earth assayl'd; All chapt and con'd; her pregnant iuyce exhal'd.
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