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One who convenes or meets with others. [Obs.]

A coming together; a meeting. [Obs.] A usual ceremony at their [the witches] convents or meetings. B. Jonson.

A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles. Sir R. Baker. A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelph…

A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects. Gray. These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card assemblies. A. Drummond.

. The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet.

, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

nking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.

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

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

A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

tical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, whereit is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet.

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

tate of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.