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[= Sp. concernencia, The concernancy , sir? why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? Shak ., Hamlet, v. 2. agreement. company. The two rogues, having concerted their plan, parted Defoe , Col. Jack. When Gloucester reached North amp ton he met the duke of Bucking ham and concerted with him the means of overthrowing the Wydvilles. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 360. 2. To plan; devise. A commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people than to plan the operations of a cam Burke , Vind. of Nat. Society. concerned (kon-sernd'), p . a . [Pp. of concern, ".] 1. Having or manifesting disquietude; un- easy; troubled; anxious: as, she watched his paign. movements with a concerned look or feeling; he was concerned about his prospects.-2. A euphemism for damned . [U. S.] That's a concerned ugly fix, and how we'll ever get out of it is more than I know. Southern Lit. Me enger , March, 1851. concernedly (kon-ser'ned-li), adv . In a con- cerned manner; with anxiety or solicitude. concernedne (kon-ser'ned-nes), n. The state of being concerned. Earnestne and concernedne . Abp . Sharp , Sermons, VI. xi. It concerns the State of England to look at this time into the State of France. Baker , Chronicles, p. 377. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. To this reasoning I am not concerned to raise any objec concern, v.] An affair of importance; concern; busine . We shall write to you, As time and our concern ings shall importune. Shak ., M. for M., i. 1. Add is on , State of the War. concerningt (kon-ser'ning), p . a . a. [Ppr. of con- cern, v.] v .] Having interest or moment; imp or- tion. Mind, IX. 80. tant. The enterprise was ill concerted . Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 97. 3. In music, to arrange (a piece of music) for several voices or instruments.-4. [From the noun concert.] To sing in concert. [Rare.] And we, with Nature's heart in tune, Concerted harmonies. Mother well, Jeanie Morrison. II. in trans. To act in concert: with with . [Rare.] The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp. Burnet. concert (kon'sėrt), n. [=D. G. concert = Dan. Sw. koncert , a (musical) concert, concierto = Pg. concerto, conserto , as if connected with L. conserere : see etym. of verb), agreement, union, harmony, concert, etc.; from the verb: see con cert , v.] 1. Agreement of two or more in a design or plan; combination formed by mutual concerted (kon-sėr'ted), p . a. [Pp. of concert, v .] 1. Mutually agreed upon, contrived, or planned. Poetry was, in all appearance, previous to any concerted Goldsmith , Origin of Poetry. concerti on (kon-ser's hon), n. [ Young . [Rare.] concert-master (kon' sėrt - más "ter), n. [G. concertmeister.] The first violinist of an orches- tra; the leader. concert ment (kon-sert'ment), n. [ concert + ment .] The act of concerting. R. Pollok. concert-music (kon'sèrt-mūzik), n. Secular music, vocal or instrumental, of decided tech--2. Specifically, in gram . , marking or stating nical elaboration, and suited to performance a condition as something which may be granted in a large auditorium: usually of one or few movements or parts, and thus different from an opera, oratorio, or similar extended work: dis- tinguished from chamber - music and church music . concerto (kon-char'- or kon-sér'tō), n. [It.: see concert, v.] In music: (a) A concert. [Rare.] (b) Same as concertante. for two or more solo instruments of the same or of a different kind: as, Bach's concerto for four pianos; Handel's concerti gro i for two violins and violoncello soli, with accompani- ment for a stringed orchestra. Such concertos are called double , triple , etc., according to the number of solo instruments. (d) A compos i- tion, usually in symphonic form, written for one principal instrument (occasionally for more than one), with accompaniment for a large or small orchestra, and intended to display the An obsolete spelling of conceit . Plural of concetto. work, usually instrumental, suitable for per- form ance in a concert. concert-pitch (kon's ert-pich), n. In music , the pitch used in tuning instruments for concert use. See pitch . conce ible (kon-ses'i-bl), a . [=Pg. conces- sivel = It. con ce i bile, concedere , concede: see con- cede and - ible .] Capable of being conceded or granted. [Rare.] tums in Nature. It was built upon one of the most conce ible postula- Sterne , Tristram Shandy, vi. 157. Their claim, we can now all see, was just, difficult to render clear and conce ible . Carlyle , Cromwell's Letters, II. 44. conce ion (kon-sesh'on), n. [= D. konce ie = G. conce ion = Dan. kon se ion, conce ion = Pr. conce ion = Sp. concesion = Pg. conces- são = It. con ce i one , conce io (n-), conce- dere , pp. conce us , concede, grant: see concede .] 1. The act of conceding, granting, or yielding: usually implying a demand, claim, or request from the party to whom the grant is made. The conce ion of these charters was in a parliamentary way. Sir M. Hale , Hist. Com. Law. of Eng. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of conce ion. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 191. IMG:content-0968.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0969.jpg:[blocks in formation] Specifically - 2. In argumentation, the yield- ing, granting, or allowing to the opposite party of some point or fact that may bear dispute, with a view to gain some ulterior advantage, or to show that, even when the point conceded is granted, the argument can be maintained. The fallacy lay in the immense conce ion that the bad are succe ful; that justice is not done now. 3. The thing or point yielded; a grant. Specifi- cally applied to grants of land, privileges, or immunities made by government to individuals or companies to en- able or encourage them to undertake public enterprises, as to construct railways, canals, etc. A gift of more worth, in a temporal view, was the grant to the king of the cruzada, the excusada, and other conces- sions of ecclesiastical revenue. Pre scott . A French man has obtained the conce ion [the privilege of making the Suez Canal], and it may be executed by French engineers and French workmen. Edinburgh Rev. [In parts of the United States acquired from Spain and Mexico it is used in a much broader sense, and includes entries of land and warrants of survey or location; any designation of public land by the government as a igned to private ownership or occupation.] - The Conce ions, in U. S. hist . , the political privileges granted to the prov ince of New Jersey by the proprietors Berkeley and Car- teret in 1664-5, which formed the constitution of the province until 1702, or, as the colonists claimed, until the revolution. conce ionary (kon-sesh'on-a-ri), a . and n. [ conce ion + -ary1 ;= F.conce ionnaire , etc.] I. d . Given by indulgence or allowance; of the nature of a conce ion: as, a conce ionary priv- ilege. [Rare.] II. n.; pl. conce ionaries (-riz). A person to whom a privilege or conce ion has been grant- ed; a conce ioner. conce ioner (kon-sesh'on-er), n. [ conce ion + -er1 . Cf. conce ionary .] One who obtains or desires to obtain a conce ion, as a grant of At that instant, however, the blast of a fish-dealer's Hawthorne , Seven Gables, vii. conch was heard, announcing his approach along the street. 3. A spiral shell fabled to have been used by the Tritons as a trumpet, probably of the kind now constituting the genus Triton , and used as a musical instrument in the South Sea isl- ands. Also conch - shell . The conch or apse before which stood the high altar. Milman . 7. [Also written conk , conck , konk .] (a) One of the lower cla of inhabitants of the Baha- mas, and of the keys on the Florida reef: so named from their extensive use of the flesh from conchs as food. IMG:content-0970.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0971.jpg:[blocks in formation] shell of bone, or a bone like a shell; a turbinated bone.-2. Same as conch, 6.-3. [ML., > OF. conque.] An old dry measure of Gascony and Navarre, about 5 pecks, Winchester measure.- Concha inferior, the inferior turbinated bone; the maxilloturbinal. - Concha superior, concha media, the superior and middle turbinated bones, together making the ethmoturbinal. pl. [NL.,