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To feast together; to be convivial. [Obs.] "There, in the full, convive we." Shak.

To convoke; to call together. [Obs.] May (Lucan).

To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons. There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament. palfrey.

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

The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself. Blackmore.

To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

Operating together; as, coöperant forces.

The act of coöperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.

A prefix signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

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 (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flo…

To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomens. Darwin.

To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. [Obs.] Burton.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.