The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

To triturate; to pulverize.

Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.

One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.

To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

That branch of Mathematics and Engineering which deals with the design, identification and analysis of systems with a view towards controlling them, i. e., to make them perform specific tasks or make them behave in a desired way.

Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.

Capability of being controlled.

One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

The office of a controller.

The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.

Turning or looking opposite ways.

Controversial.

To dispute; to controvert.

A disputant.

Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

In a controversial manner.

Act of controverting; controversy.

A controverser.

Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.

To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist.

Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.

Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.

Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

To beat, pound, or bray together.

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

injured without breaking the skin; as, a cut arm and contused cheek.

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.

An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

A cone.

Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged.

See Cognizant.

See Cognizor.

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

Convalescent.

The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

One recovering from sickness.

In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.

A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.

The lily of the valley.

One of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted.

A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.

to circulate hot air by convection, as of certain ovens.

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity.

In a convective manner.

Tending to tear or pull up.

Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies.

That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.

To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.

things that make one comfortable and at ease.

The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.

Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.

In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.

To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent.

A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.

One who supports or frequents conventicles.

Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.

The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

to make conventional.

That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.

One who adheres to a convention or treaty.

The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

The act of making conventional. The state of being conventional.

To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.

In a conventional manner.

Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants.

One who belongs to a convention or assembly.

One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.

One who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.

To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together.

tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.

The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.

In a conversable manner.

The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.

Conversance

One who converses with another; a convenser.

In a familiar manner.

General course of conduct; behavior.

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.

A conversationist.

Aaquaintea with m`nners aod deportment; behaved.

A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.

One who converses much, or who excels in conversation.

Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative.

A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.

A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.

In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.

One who engages in conversation.

Capable of being converted or reversed.

The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

Capable of being converted or changed.

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.

Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).

One who converts; one who makes converts.

The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.

Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.

The state of being convertible; convertibility.

In a convertible manner.

A convert.

a device for changing one substance or form or state into another.

A convex body or surface.

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.

In a convex form; convexly.