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The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.

oison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

and Double point. -- Self-conjugate triangle (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic.

To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Shak. And whispering "I will ne'er consent," -- consented. Byron.

To plot; to plan; to combine for. Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall.

istinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed or controverted.

pute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.

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.

To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.

, a. Etym: [L. conversus, p.p. of convertere. See Convert.] Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.

Capable of being converted or changed.

One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. Carpenter.

Converted into horn; horny.

ammals the red corpuscles are circular, but in the camels, birds, reptiles, and the lower vertebrates generally, they are oval, and sometimes more or less spherical in form. In Amphioxus, and most invertebrates, the blood corpuscles are all white or colorless. -- White blood corpuscles (Physiol.), rounded, slightly fl…

elation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; -- usually having s…

uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. Shak.

Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebræ.