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rch of England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift.

A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; a…

ubject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).

A copier. [Obs.] "A copist after nature." Shaftesbury.

ample; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation. Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters. Holder.

A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

uce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.

The human body, whether living or dead. [Obs.] See Corpse, 1. By what craft in my corps, it cometh [commences] and where. Piers Plowman.

dy of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to…

This is a defect in the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet.

hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with. After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macualay.

A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.

To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. [Engl.]