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.
To call out cooee.
emitting a cry like that of a dove; as, The cooing pigeons.
To prepare food for the table.
A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.
heated again after having cooled down; -- often used of food remaining from a previous day.
A female cook.
an implement for cooking.
The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking.
See Cooky.
the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.
A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.
A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.
An eating house.
a stove for cooking, especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove.
cooking utensils, such as pots, pans, or baking dishes made of heat-resistant material.
A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.
To become less hot; to lose heat.
a fluid (gas or liquid) used to cool a device by transferring heat away from one part to another.
made or become cool or made cool as specified; often used as a combining form; as, air-cooled auto engine; the cooled milk was put in the refrigerator.
That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.
Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion; unshakably calm and collected.
Same as Cooly.
An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.
Somewhat cool.
In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.
The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.
The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea).
Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.
A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.