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To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things. According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety. Locke.

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…

To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.

er; to overcome; to subdue or master. [Obs.] His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak.

Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.

A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

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

Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)

Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.

St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.

To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator. [Obs.]

A corpse; the dead body of a human being. [Archaic or Poetic] Set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys. Shak.

With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast. Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such…

Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]

The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.