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.
Convexity.
The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.
In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.
The state of being convex; convexity.
Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.
Convex on both sides; double convex. See under Convex, a.
Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
To play the thief; to steal.
Capable of being conveyed or transferred.
The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc.
The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.
One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.
the act of transferring a property title from one person to another.
A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.
Immediate vicinity; neighborhood.
Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting.
To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
a type of greenling (Oxylebius pictus) with a whitish body marked with black bands.
Capable of being convicted.
The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
Convincing.
To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.
Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.
One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
Capable of being convinced or won over.
a successful persuasion.
in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.
A quest at a banquet.
Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.
A person of convivial habits.
The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
In a convivial manner.
To convoke; to call together.
The act of calling or assembling by summons.
Of or pertaining to a convocation.
An advocate or defender of convocation.
To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.
Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in /stivation.
Having convolutions.
The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.
To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.
A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipom/a.
The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.
An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.
Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary.
A convulsionist.
One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. M/dard.
Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
in a convulsive manner.
A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus) The chief hare.
To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver.
An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.
A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.
To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.