Dictionary Entry

cone

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /kəʊn/Used In Literature ↓

A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

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Common Phrases

. coneangle conecone creamcone southerncone truncatedcone pinecone growth

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Poetry examples for “cone”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

On russet floors, by waters idle,
The pine lets fall its cone;
The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing

Safe to the Indies has the earth conveyed
The vast and moon-eclipsing cone of night,
Her towering foolscap of eternal shade.

Outspread about my fall.
They hold their fragrance still, a blood-red cone
Of memory.

yonder building. He is worshipped under the figure of a large
stone pillar terminating at the summit in a cone or pyramid,
whereby is denoted Fire.

Rose the blue hills. One cloud of white,
Around a far uplifted cone,
In the warm blush of evening shone;

That could wound him, that could slay him, 35
Was the seed-cone of the pine-tree,
Was the blue cone of the fir-tree.

That could wound him, that could slay him,
Was the seed-cone of the pine-tree,
Was the blue cone of the fir-tree.

It is but my own fear! The life within me,
It sinks and wavers like this cone of flame,
Beyond which I scarce dare look onward! Oh!

The popguns painted red and blue.
No solemn pine-cone forest-fruit,
But silver horns and candy sacks

Steamboats, Locomotives, Railroad Depots, Factories, &c. Also
manufacturers of Cone’s Patent Bronzed Steel Swing House Bells,
with Bell Metal Shanks.