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Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor.

A squinting eye. Forby.

An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [Colloq.]

Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

See Collie.

A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

A rabbit. See Cony.

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. I will convey them by sea in fleats. 1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak.

Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke.

The act of conveying, 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.

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

The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.

A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]