conca

n. [ L. concameratio. ] 1. An arch or vault. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Concatenated; p. pr. & vb. n. Concatenating. ] [ L. concatenatus, p. p. of concatenare to concatenate. See Catenate. ] To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. [ 1913 Webster ]

This all things friendly will concatenate. Dr. H. More [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concatenatio. ] A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint cause. Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making concave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. concaved p. pr. & vb. n. Concaving. ] To make hollow or concave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concavum. ] 1. A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Up to the fiery concave towering hight. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. concavus; con- + cavus hollow: cf. F. concave. See Cave a hollow. ] 1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hollow; void of contents. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As concave . . . as a worm-eaten nut. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]