cone valve

A hollow valve having a conical, perforated face, through which water is discharged when the valve rises, without impinging directly upon the valve-face or seat. Cone - vise coupling : A mode of connecting the ends of shafting, consisting of an outer sleeve and two inner sleeves. *còn-fa-mil-I-ar, a. [Low Lat. con familiar is : con = cum = with, together; familiar is = familiar (q. v.).] Very intimate or familiar. some of them were more con familiar and analogous to some of our transactions, than others."Glanville: Pre-Exist. of Souls, p. 80. *con-fär-i-a-tion, s . [Lat. confari =to speak together.] A talking together, a discu ion. "Satisfied with the con far i at i on of reasonable men."Gaule: Mag - Astro -Mancer, p. 91.