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||Con*fer"va (?), n.; pl.
Confervæ (#). [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.


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