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Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence. Argument . . . and friendly communication. Shak.

Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [Rare, except in legal usage.] That is the privillege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being. Locke.

countable; responsible; sensitive. [Obs.] I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage. Shak.

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid. All the conduits of my blood froze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke. Confidential communication (Law) See Privileged communication, under Privileged. -- Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors. -- Confidential debts, debts incurred for…

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.

To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs. Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were…

Custom, habit; usage. [R.] To observe this consuetude or law. Barnes .

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality. There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down. Tennyson.

out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

tion or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

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.

ring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.

cloth. Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.