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To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing. The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. Spenser.

The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. [He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl.…

One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.

t or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

rew turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

aceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.

A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus).

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

bates heat or excitement. if acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. Arbuthnot.

A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is F. atra (see under bald); the American is F. Americana.

A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

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

Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

lk, 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 its batter. [U. S.] -- Corn…

A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

nation of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the p…

Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. "Corporate property." Hallam.