CONDITIONS. The terms of surrender.

CONDUCT-LIST. A roll to accompany the tickets of all persons sent to a
hospital for medical treatment; it details their names, numbers on the
ship's books, the date of their being sent, and the nature of their
ailment.

CONDUCT-MONEY. A sum advanced to defray the travelling expenses of
volunteers, and of soldiers and sailors to their quarters and ships.
(_See_ SAFE-CONDUCT.)

CONDUCTOR. A thick metal wire, generally of copper, extending from above
the main truck downwards into the water, or in the form of a chain with
long links. Its use is to defend the ship from the effects of lightning,
by conveying the electric fluid into the sea.

CONE. A solid figure having a circle for its base, and produced by the
entire revolution of a right-angled triangle about its perpendicular
side, which is termed the axis of the cone.

CONE-BUOY. _See_ CAN-BUOYS.

CONEY-FISH. A name of the burbot.

CONFIGURATION. The relative positions of celestial bodies, as for
instance those of Jupiter's satellites, with respect to the primary at
any one time.

CONFINEMENT. Inflicted restraint; an arrest.

CONFIRMED RANK. When an officer is placed in a vacancy by "acting
order," he only holds temporary rank until "confirmed" therein by the
Admiralty. An acting order given by competent authority is not disturbed
by any casual superior.

CONFLICT. An indecisive action.

CONFLUENTS. Those streams which join and flow together. The confluence
is the point of junction of an affluent river with its recipient.

CONGER. A large species of sea-eel, furnishing a somewhat vile viand,
but eatable when strongly curried. Not at all despised by the people of
Cornwall in "fishy pie."

CONGREVE-ROCKET. A very powerful form of rocket, invented by the late
Sir William Congreve, R.A., and intended to do the work of artillery
without the inconvenience of its weight. In its present form, however,
the rocket is so uncertain, that it is in little favour save for
exceptional occasions.

CONICAL TOPS OF MOUNTAINS not unfrequently indicate their nature: the
truncated sugar-loaf form is generally assumed by volcanoes, though the
same is occasionally met with in other mountains.

CONIC SECTIONS. The curved lines and plane figures which are produced by
the intersection of a plane with a cone.

CONJEE. Gruel made of rice.

CONJUGATE AXIS. The secondary diameter of an ellipse, perpendicular to
the transverse axis.

CONJUNC