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Con   /kɑn/   Listen
verb
Con  v. t.  (past & past part. conned; pres. part. conning)  
1.
To know; to understand; to acknowledge. (Obs.) "Of muses, Hobbinol, I con no skill." "They say they con to heaven the highway."
2.
To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously. "Fixedly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book." "I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson."
To con answer, to be able to answer. (Obs.)
To con thanks, to thank; to acknowledge obligation. (Obs.)



Con  v. t.  (Naut.) To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.



adverb
Con  adv.  Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.



prefix
Con-  pref.  A prefix, fr. L. cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.






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... King's Bench, in favour of his deceased brother, and which could not be executed against the said Waller, on account of the privilege of Parliament, etc. But this petition was rejected by the House, nem. con. The Dean seems to have employed his pen against Waller. See a letter from Mrs. Whiteway to Swift, Nov. 15, 1735, edit. Scott, xviii, p. ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift

... Nell, and standing on the road, looked up and down it; but not a sign of her two little brothers, Con and Bill, or her little sister, Peg, could she see. She called them; but no answer came from the little haggard, fenced with straggling bushes. She listened, but the sound of their voices was missing. Over the ...
— J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 • J.S. Le Fanu

... continued the governor, "has been made only after much debate in the Solar Council Chamber. There have been many arguments pro and con. A week ago a secret vote was taken, and the project was approved. We are going to establish a Solar Alliance colony on a newly discovered satellite in orbit around the sun star Wolf 359, a satellite that ...
— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell

... it's a sorry mornin to turn aght two little lambs like them. Bessy," he said, lowering his voice to a whisper, "aw know aw'm i'th' gate,—aw con do nowt but lig i' bed, an' aw know 'at thee an' th' childer have to goa short mony a time for what aw get, but it willn't be for long. Dooant rooar! tha knows it's summat 'at we've nowt to do wi; an' tha heeard what th' parson said, 'Ther's One aboon at 'll work ...
— Yorksher Puddin' - A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the - Pen of John Hartley • John Hartley

... little more talk, pro and con, and then the two men parted as men can do, after a heated and vital discussion, apparently on the ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock


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