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f the acts of Parliament. Macaulay. In contravention of all his marriage stipulations. Motley.

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

es, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

stalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.

The lily of the valley.

lline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.

. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

ndency to one point. The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley.

a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny. Cooley.

ce of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

y grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven. Phillips. Bailey.

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.

Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness. Motley.

A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

d to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.

a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. Bentley.