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To make sorrowful. [Obs.] Bacon.

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

ce in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon.

e state of being changed; transmutation; change. Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.

veying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. The 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.

.] God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. Bacon.

nd; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.

Cupel dust. [Obs.] Powder of steel, or copple dust. Bacon.

Joined; associated; coupled. [Obs.] Bacon.

A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. Bacon.

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

less or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

A body or code of laws. [Obs.] The whole corps of the law. Bacon.

A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point. Bacom

To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he wou…

means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macualay.

Strengthening; supporting; corroborating. Bacon. -- n.

Corroborated. [Obs.] Bacon.

To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Bacon.

n is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.