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Concini – Conserve

Concini

CONCINO, an Italian, minister to Louis XIII .

Concord

a city of North Carolina, the county-seat of Cabarrus co. It is on the Southern railroad. There are manufactures of cotton, foundries, and machine shop. The city is the seat of the Jackson Training School and the Scotia Seminary. Pop. (1910) 8,715; (1920) 9,903.

Concordia

a goddess, to whom many temples were built at Rome; she typified the good results of the compact in that empire; it was virtually abolclasses.

Condensed Milk

milk reduced greatly in bulk and rendered proportion-

Condensed Milk

milk reduced greatly in bulk and rendered proportiontion of milk, which has since been carried out extensively in the United States and Europe. and Europe. ried out extensively in the United States

Condiments

or seasoning agents, are employed at table to impart a flavor to food. The principal condiments are butter and olive oil, salt, mustard, ginbutter and olive oil, salt, mustard, ginger, pepper, vinegar, pickles, sugar, and honey.

Confessional

in Roman Catholic churches and chapels, a kind of inclosed seat in which the priest sits to hear persons confess their sins.

Conformable Strata

beds which lie parallel to each other, the accumulation of the upper strata having followed the deposition of the underlying beds without any break or prolonged interruption. Conformity thus points to a continuity of the same physical conditions.

Congregationists

the Scotch reformers. The whole body was called the Congregation; but from 1638, when they bound themselves by oath to adhere to the Solemn League and Covenant, the reformers were called Covenanters. Not unfrequently the Congregationists are called Covenanters.

Consciousness

the state of being conscious; knowledge or perception of what passes in one's own mind. Internal sense or knowledge of guilt or innocence. Consciousness is the recognition by the mind of its own acts.

Conservatory

in gardening, is a term generally applied by gardeners to plant-houses, in which the plants are raised in a bed or border without the use of pots, the building being frequently attached to a mansion.

Conserve

a form of medicine in which flowers, herbs, fruits, roots, are preserved as nearly as possible in their natural fresh state. the

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