अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.

One who favors concession.

Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.

By way of concession.

Conceding; permissive.

of Concetto

The use of concetti or affected conceits.

Affected wit; a conceit.

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

See Concha, n.

The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.

One of the Conchifera.

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

Producing or having shells.

Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.