Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-VERT'ED, pp.

Turned or changed from one substance or state to another; turned from one religion or sect to another; changed from a state of sin to a state of holiness; applied to a particular use; appropriated.

CON-VERT'ER, n.

One who converts; one who makes converts.

CON-VERT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [From convertible.]

1. The quality of being possible to be converted or changed from one substance, form or state to another; as, the convertibility of land into money. – Burke.
2. The quality of being changeable from one letter to another; as, the convertibility of m with b, or of d into t. – As. Researches.

CON-VERT'I-BLE, a. [Fr., from convertir.]

1. That may be changed; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. – Harvey.
2. So much alike that one may be used for another. Usury and interest are not now convertible terms, though formerly they were.
3. That may be changed, as one letter for another; as, b, p and f are convertible letters.

CON-VERT'I-BLE-NESS, n.

Convertibility.

CON-VERT'I-BLY, adv.

Reciprocally; with interchange of terms. – South.

CON-VERT'ING, a.

Adapted to convert, that converts from a state of nature to a state of grace.

CON-VERT'ING, ppr.

Turning; changing.

CON'VERT-ITE, n.

A convert. [Not in use.]

CON'VEX, a. [L. convexus; It. convesso.]

Rising or swelling on the exterior surface into a spherical or round form; gibbous; opposed to concave, which expresses a round form of the interior surface; as, a convex mirror or lens.

CON'VEX, n.

A convex body; as, heaven's convex. – Tickel.

CON'VEX-ED, a.

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. – Brown.

CON-VEX'ED-LY, adv.

In a convex form. – Brown.

CON-VEX'I-TY, n. [L. convexitas.]

The exterior surface of a convex body; a gibbous or globular form; roundness. – Newton. Bentley.

CON'VEX-LY, adv.

In a convex form; as, a body convexly conical.

CON'VEX-NESS, n.

Convexity – which see.

CON-VEX'O-CON'CAVE, a.

Convex on one side and concave on the other; having the hollow on the inside corresponding to the convex surface.

CON-VEX'O-CON'VEX, a.

Convex on both sides.

CON-VEY', v.t. [L. conveho; con and veho, to carry, Sax. wægan, wegan, Eng. to weigh. See Weigh and Way.]

1. To carry, bear or transport, either by land or water, or in air; as, to convey a letter or a package; to convey goods from England to France.
2. To pass or cause to pass; to transmit; as, to convey a right or an estate from father to son.
3. To transfer; to pass a title to any thing from one person to another, as by deed, assignment, or otherwise; as, to convey lands by bargain and sale.
4. To cause to pass; to transmit; to carry, by any medium; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
5. To manage; to carry on. [Not used.] I will convey the business as I shall find means. – Shak.
6. To impart; to communicate.

CON-VEY'A-BLE, a.

That maybe conveyed or transferred. – Burke on the Sublime.

CON-VEY'ANCE, n.

1. The act of conveying; the act of bearing, carrying, or transporting, by land or water, or through any medium.
2. The act of transmitting, or transferring, as titles, estates or claims from one person to another; transmission; transferrence, assignment.
3. The instrument or means of passing a thing from place to place, or person to person; as, a vehicle is a conveyance for persons or goods; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water; a deed is a conveyance of land.
4. Removal; the act of censoring or carrying. – Shak.
5. Management; artifice; secret practices. [In this sense, obsolete.] – Spenser.

CON-VEY'AN-CER, n.

One whose occupation is to draw conveyances of property, deeds, &c.

CON-VEY'AN-CING, n.

The act or, practice of drawing deeds, leases or other writings for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

CON-VEY'ED, pp.

Carried; transmitted; transferred.

CON-VEY'ER, n.

1. One who conveys; he or that which conveys, carries, transports, transmits or transfers from one person or place to another.
2. A juggler. – Shak.