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, is considerable enough to enter into the cloth. Dryden. A considerable sum of money. Prescott.

ar. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

fidelity. A fellow of plain unoined constancy. Shak. Constancy and contempt of danger. Prescott.

itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott.

r, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke. The Parliament of Scotland now convened. Sir R. Baker. Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene. Thomson.

ether or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body. [Scot.]

in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics. The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecut…

erse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.

eligion to another; also, the state of being so changed. "Conversion to Christianity." Prescott.

ther or from one party or sect to another. No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott.

he long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyamce. Prescott. Following th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh.

Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Sir W. Scott.

A cart made close with boarde; a tumbrel. [Scotch]

The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (Edemia are called coots. See Scoter. "As simple as a coot." Halliwell.

ation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.] [Scot.]

The raven. [Scot.]

le. "A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government." Prescott. -- Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.

hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

Same as Correi. [Scot.] Geikie.

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.