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One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.]

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid. All the conduits of my blood froze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voliable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.

onsigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance. To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. Burke.

Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Conveyance; means of transportation. [Obs.] Shak.

A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

e standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantitty transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber.…

A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force. Coup de grace (ke gr Etym: [F.], the stroke of mercy with which an executioner ends by death the sufferings of the condemned; hence, a decisive, finishing stroke. -- Coup de main (ke m Etym: […

A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public busuness. The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers, advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose. Knolles.

A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water. Johnson.

learness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.

One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc. [Colloq. U. S.]

To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son. [Colloq. U. S.]

or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.

That which carries or conveys. Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds. Bacon.

To carry; to convey. Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated. Bacon.

Conveyance. [Obs. or Archaic] In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them. Bacon.

Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.