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To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.] O, which way shall I first convert myself B. Jonson.

To manage with privacy; to carry out. [Obs.] I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. Shak.

an offense. The greater certainty of conviction and the greater certainty of punishment. Hallam.

mberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak.

An assembly or meeting. In the first day there shall be a holy convocation. Ex. xii. 16.

ed States all the species of (Edemia are called coots. See Scoter. "As simple as a coot." Halliwell.

ly pours its copious treasures forth. Thomson. Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton.

To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.

A twisted cord; a tassel. Halliwell.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. Bp. Hall.

A small, hard particle; a grain. "Corn of sand." Bp. Hall. "A corn of powder." Beau & Fl. Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostem…

Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. "Corporate property." Hallam.

ng the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

atever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefitt. One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. Prescott.

A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [Obs.] What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

l couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies. Shak. The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture. I. Taylor.

ined by counting. Of blessed saints for to increase the count. Spenser. By this count, I shall be much in years. Shak.

of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.