[-ING2.] That connives; in Nat. Hist. = CONNIVENT 3 b.

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1783.  Burke, Sp. E. India Bill, Wks. IV. 112. In many of them, the directors were heartily concurring … in all, they were conniving.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 291. Dead-nettle … Anthers conniving in pairs; cells diverging.

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