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To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger.

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lesen; as, to contract one's shpere of action. In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr. H. More.

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

e contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts.

rced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.

Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship. Humble folk ben Christes friends: they ben contubernial with the Lord, thy King. Chaucer.

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.] In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton.

One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body. [Scot.]

A coming together; a meeting. [Obs.] A usual ceremony at their [the witches] convents or meetings. B. Jonson.

The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition. The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination. Boyle.

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. The mountains converge into a single ridge. Jefferson.

tions; informal dialogue. The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay.

about, concerning, etc., before a thing. Companions That do converse and waste the time together. Shak. We had conversed so often on that subject. Dryden.

To feast together; to be convivial. [Obs.] "There, in the full, convive we." Shak.

To convoke; to call together. [Obs.] May (Lucan).

To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons. There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament. palfrey.

Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.

The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself. Blackmore.