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ling. See Brawler. -- Common carrier (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in conse…

The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone.

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing.

re; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination. The compass of his argument. Wodsworth.

edly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book. Wodsworth. I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson. Burke. To con answer, to be able to answer. [Obs.] -- To con thanks, to thank; to acknowledge obligation. [Obs.] Shak.

n. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

as, to confirm a rumor. Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. Pope. These likelihoods confirm her flight. Shak.

Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

fecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. "Confiscatory and exterminatory periods." Burke.

To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.

To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.

The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance. To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. Burke.

One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.

Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.

To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes. Pope.

ight; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras.

To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

nd instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.