Crossword-Solution: CONICS 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

GENERAL: I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

Nor, though I bragged perpetually of my shorthand, of my literature, of my indispensable share in Rawdon’s business, did Parload lay stress on the conics and calculus he “mugged” in the organized science school.

Circles and conics as point-rows of the second order.* It is not difficult to see that a circle is a point-row of the second order.

Classification of conics.* Conics are classified according to their relation to the infinitely distant line.

Equation of central conics referred to conjugate diameters.* Consider now a _central conic_, that is, one which is not a parabola and the center of which is therefore at a finite distance.