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A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin. Telpher line, or Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.

The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin.

sel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

sually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

An apparatus for conveying heat, as a case containing material which retains its heat for a considerable period.

tificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.

make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith.

the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.

adeater; a sycophant. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. Dickens.

One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.

The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.] "The traduction of brutes." Sir M. Hale.

An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [R.] Bp. J. King (1608).

The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. [R.] Fuller.

The act of conveying over. [R.] Entick.

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.