{ Con`fer*ru"mi*nate (?), Con`fer*ru"mi*na`ted (?) }, a. [L. conferruminare to cement. See Ferruminate.] (Bot.) Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.
||Con*fer"va (?), n.; pl. ConfervŠ (#). [L., a kind of water plant. See Comfrey.] (Bot.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.
Con`fer*va"ceous (?), a. Belonging to the confervae.
Con*fer"void (?), a. [Conferva + -oid.] Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.
Con*fer"vous (?), a. Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae.
Yon exiguous pool's confervous scum.
O. W. Holmes.
Con*fess" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confessed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Confessing.] [F. confesser, fr. L. confessus, p. p. of confiteri to confess; con- + fateri to confess; akin to fari to speak. See 2d Ban, Fame.] 1. To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
And there confess
Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
Milton.
I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
Addison.