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The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation. Thus necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. Cowper. We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency. Jer. Taylor.

In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.

In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.

A small house; a cottage or hut. The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith.

ical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.

as much as can be seen at one view. (b) The general effect of a picture. (c) (Mil.) The faculty or the act of comprehending at a glance the weakness or strength of a military position, of a certain arrangement of troops, the most advantageous position for a battlefield, etc.

That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution. The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. Shak. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man…

more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.

England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.

st; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. Coy, and difficult to win. Cowper. Coy and furtive graces. W. Irving. Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. Goldsmith.

Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. "Crabbed eloquence." Chaucer. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. Milton.

Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.

Knotty; difficult. [R.] Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion. Coleridge.

ng of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. Dunglison.

An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

Creatural; characteristic of a creature. [R.] "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

Increasing; growing. [R.] Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. Shak.

ection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland.

A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.