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Cone   /koʊn/   Listen
noun
Cone  n.  
1.
(Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
2.
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. "Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault."
3.
(Bot.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
4.
(Zool.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
Cone of rays (Opt.), the pencil of rays of light which proceed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that of a lens, or conversely.
Cone pulley. See in the Vocabulary.
Oblique cone or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base.
Eight cone. See Cone, 1.



verb
Cone  v. t.  To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.






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... 'Neath their Moya's smoke-tanned cone, Round the fire his chieftains heard him, Holding each a pipe's red stone. Pausing long, they gave their counsel, Different from their wont; for here All the young men spoke for kindness, All the old men ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

... their kings are of different races.[1] The temples are numerous, and in one in particular, situated on an eminence[2], is the great hyacinth, as large as a pine-cone, the colour of fire, and flashing from a distance, especially when catching the beams of the ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... word pyramid is of Greek origin, the suggestion of that able writer and scholar, Mr. Kenrick of York, is probably more true, viz. that the term [Greek: pyramis] (from [Greek: pyros], wheat, and [Greek: melitos], honey) was applied by the Greeks to a pointed or cone-shaped cake, used by them at the feasts of Bacchus (as shown on the table at the reception of Bacchus by Icarus; see Hope's Costumes, vol. ii. p. 224), and when they became acquainted with the Pyramids of Egypt, they, in this as in ...
— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson

... Jaman not nearly so difficult to climb as the Roches de Naye. After the scamper across the snow and the climb over this little ice-collar down which the Chancery Barrister had slipped, there is no more snow. We climb up by steps worn by the feet of many adventurers. The top is a level cone with an area not much greater than that of a moderate-sized dining-room. There was not a breath of wind, and the sun beat down with a warmth made all the more delicious by the recollection of the frozen region ...
— Faces and Places • Henry William Lucy

... Francisco mountain in Arizona were visited in 1883 by Col. James Stevenson, of the Bureau of Ethnology, and in 1885 by Maj. J. W. Powell. Major Powell[6] describes a number of groups in the vicinity of Flagstaff. Of one group, situated on a cinder cone about 12 miles east of ...
— Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff


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