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A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

te, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.

Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

rwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

Without technical or artistic knowledge. Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader. Etching & Engr.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

easts, on a journey. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting aEvelyn.

. She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests…

A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

To support and remove or carry; to convey. I 'll bear your logs the while. Shak.

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

of the constitutions of the several States. -- Bill of sale, a formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels. -- Bill of sight, a form of entry at the customhouse, by which goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination.…

Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.