conspiring

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONSPIRING, participle present tense 1. Agreeing to commit a crime; plotting; uniting or concurring to one end. 2. In mechanics, conspiring powers are such as act in a direction not opposite to one another; cooperating powers.
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