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The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

To convert into coke.

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.

e poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

, a. Etym: [L. conversus, p.p. of convertere. See Convert.] Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.

Capable of being converted or changed.

Converted into horn; horny.

l relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; -- usually havin…

To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction.

a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. What stores my dairies and my folds contain. Dryden.

ally used disparagingly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith.

To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.

of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

lements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation

Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott.