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idelity. A fellow of plain unoined constancy. Shak. Constancy and contempt of danger. Prescott.

itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott.

nt of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the cotrabass tuba or bombardon.

, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke. The Parliament of Scotland now convened. Sir R. Baker. Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene. Thomson.

ther or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body. [Scot.]

n times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics. The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecuti…

rse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.

ligion to another; also, the state of being so changed. "Conversion to Christianity." Prescott.

her or from one party or sect to another. No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott.

e long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyamce. Prescott. Following th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh.

Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Sir W. Scott.

A cart made close with boarde; a tumbrel. [Scotch]

The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (Edemia are called coots. See Scoter. "As simple as a coot." Halliwell.

A policeman. [Slang] Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly

tion for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.] [Scot.]

The raven. [Scot.]

Cordiality. Cotgrave.

A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A…

A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees Ochroma lagopus and Pariti tiliaceum. (2)