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on; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7.

he act of formally betrothing a man and woman. This is the the night of the contract. Longwellow.

n. The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture. Whewell.

s shown by juxtaposition or comparison. The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons. Whewell.

at jerusalem. Rom. xv. 26. Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences. Whewell.

Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.

agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. -- Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum w…

Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in. Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. Dryden. he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper.

Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-conv…

t of choosing; selection; choice. [Obs.] The first election and coöptation of a friend. Howell.

y, power, etc. In this high court of parliament, there is a rare coördination of power. Howell.

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

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

scription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off. I like the work well; ere it be demanded (As like enough it will), I'd have it copied. Shak. Let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance. Shak.

s. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

A twisted cord; a tassel. Halliwell.

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

to grain, living in the stalk, and causing the disease called "gout," on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlorops tæniopus. (b) A small fly (Anthomyia ze) whose larva or maggot destroys seed corn after it has been planted. -- Corn fritter, a fritter having green Indian corn mixed through…