Both Uses of
confer
in
The Mill on the Floss
- At Lucy's first evening party, young Torry fatigued his facial muscles more than usual in order that "the dark-eyed girl there in the corner" might see him in all the additional style conferred by his eyeglass; and several young ladies went home intending to have short sleeves with black lace, and to plait their hair in a broad coronet at the back of their head,—"That cousin of Miss Deane's looked so very well."†
Chpt 6.6
- And there were admiring eyes always awaiting her now; she was no longer an unheeded person, liable to be chid, from whom attention was continually claimed, and on whom no one felt bound to confer any.†
Chpt 6.6 *
Definition:
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(confer as in: confer with her coach) have a conference in order to talk something over