adverb. In opposition or disagreement; against.

noun. An argument or opinion against something.

noun. One who holds an opposing opinion or view.

transitive verb. To study, peruse, or examine carefully.

transitive verb. To learn or commit to memory.

transitive verb. To swindle (a victim) by first winning his or her confidence; dupe.

noun. A swindle.

adjective. Of, relating to, or involving a swindle or fraud.

transitive verb. To direct the steering or course of (a vessel).

noun. The area or structure on a vessel from which the vessel is conned.

noun. The position or authority of the officer conning a vessel.

noun. A convict.

A dialectal or obsolete variant of can.

noun. A variant of can, for gan, preterit of gin, begin. See can, gin.

To try; attempt (to do a thing).

To try; examine; test; taste.

To peruse carefully and attentively; study or pore over; learn: as, to con a lesson: often with over.

noun. An abbreviation of the Latin contra, against (see contra), especially common in the phrase pro and con (Latin pro et contra), for and against, in favor of and opposed to: sometimes used as a noun, with a plural, the pros and cons, the arguments, or arguers, or voters, for and against a proposition.

noun. The most frequent form of com-.

noun. Naut.: The position taken by the person who cons or directs the steering of a vessel.

noun. The act of conning.

Short for ‘confidence’: as a con man; a con game. See confidence man, confidence game (under confidence).

An abbreviation of Consul

[lowercase] of conclusion.

Nautical: To direct (the man at the helm of a vessel) how to steer.

To give orders for the steering of: as, to con a ship.

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

transitive verb. To know; to understand; to acknowledge.

transitive verb. To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.

transitive verb. to be able to answer.

transitive verb. to thank; to acknowledge obligation.

transitive verb. To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

noun. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).

verb. To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.

verb. To know, understand, acknowledge.

verb. Variant spelling of conn: to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.

noun. A convicted criminal, a convict.

noun. An organized gathering such as a convention or conference.

verb. To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through a channel etc. (rather than steer a compass direction)

noun. The navigational direction of a ship

noun. A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.

verb. To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.

verb. deprive of by deceit

adverb. in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.

noun. an argument opposed to a proposal

noun. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

verb. commit to memory; learn by heart

noun. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

"It may be faid, in general, that all God's con - daft towards Abraham was kind and benevolent; but there were fome particular ihftances of his con* duiSl, which wei-e more peculiarly expreffive of friendfhip, and which defervc to be diftindly men - tioned."

pro  

cone  mod cons  to con thank  

ken  pros and cons  unconned  

argument  statement  

Abidjan  Abron  Amman  Antoine  Aton  

Como  Esta  Este  Tu  Una  

POW  adversary  adversative  adverse  against  

conned  conning  pro  

conned  conning  cons