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Estates, conveyances, practice. An agreement or supposed agreement between the parties in levying a fine of lands, in which the deforciant (or he who keeps the other out of possession,) acknowledges that the lands in question, are the right of the complainant; and from the acknowledgment or recognition of right thus made, the party who levies the fine is called the cognisor, and the person to whom it is levied, the cognisee.
- n. A state of agreement; harmony; union. Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
- (Gram.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
- (Old Law) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
- (Mus.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
- n. A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
- vb. To agree; to act together.
