Meaning

• Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.

• Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.

• Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.

• To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

Meaning

• That connives; conspiratorial.