Definition of Connings

1. conning [n] - See also: conning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Connings

connexins
connexion
connexional
connexionally
connexions
connexity
connexive
connexives
connexon
connexons
connexus
connexus intertendineus
conning
conning tower
conning towers
connings (current term)
conniption
conniption fit
conniptions
connivance
connivances
connivant
connive
connive at
connived
connivencies
connivency
connivent
conniver
conniveries

Literary usage of Connings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The origin and history of Irish names of places by Patrick Weston Joyce (1875)
"N is also sometimes, though not often, changed to /, as in the case of Castleconnell near Limerick, which is the castle of the O'connings, not of the ..."

2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... with boxing, fencing, kiting, and what not, in the camps of the connings, the Selbys, the Breaks, the Reynolds, and my own summering families. ..."

3. Life of Tobias George Smollettby David Hannay, John Parker Anderson by David Hannay, John Parker Anderson (1887)
"connings with Nature. No. I.—The Viper.—James Munro. Reviews. General Notes and Gleanings. Reports of the Learned Societies. " The ' Monthly' will soon be ..."

4. Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
"The morning's awakening, the nightly summons to bed; the connings, the recitations; the periodical half- holidays, and perambulations; the playground, ..."

5. Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
"The morning's awakening, the nightly summons to bed; the connings, the recitations; the periodical half- holidays, and perambulations; the playground, ..."

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