work of a few hours; and this of air may be tried by a month's space.

Bacon.

There are no such natural gradations and conversions of one metal and mineral into another in the earth, as many have fancied. Woodward. The conversion of the aliment into fat, is not properly nutrition. Arbuthnot. 2. Change from reprobation to grace, from a bad life to a holy life.

3. Change from one religion to another. They passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. Acts. The interchange of terms in an argument: as, no virtue is vice; no vice is virtue. Chambers.

5. CONVERSION of Equations, in algebra, is the reducing of a fractional equation into an integral one.

CONVERSIVE. adj. [from converse.] Conversable; sociable.

To CONVERT. v. a. [converto, Latin.] 1. To change into another substance; to

transmute.

If the whole atmosphere was converted into water, it would make no more than eleven yards water about the earth. Burnet. 2. To change from one religion to another. Augustine is converted by St. Ambrose's sermon, when he came to it on no such design.

Hammond.

3. To turn from a bad to a good life.

He which converteth the sinner from the errour of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

James. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms. To turn toward any point. Crystal will calify into electricity, and convert the needle freely placed. Brown. 5. To apply to any use; to appropriate. The abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. Isaiab.

He acquitted himself not like an honest man; for he converted the prizes to his own use. Arbuthnot on Coins. 6. To change one proposition into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

The papists cannot abide this proposition converted: all sin is a transgression of the law; but every transgression of the law is sin. The apostle therefore turns it for us: all unrighteousness, says he, is sin; but every transgression of the law is unrighteousness, says Austin upon the place. Hale.

To CONVERT. v.n. To undergo a change; to be transmuted.

The love of wicked friends converts to fear; That fear, to hate. Shakspeare's Richard 11. They rub out of it a red dust which converteth into worms, which they kill with wine. Sandys. CONVERT. n. s. [from the verb.] A person converted from one opinion or one practice to another.

The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Stilling fleet. When Platonism prevailed, "the converts to christianity of that school interpreted Holy Writ according to that philosophy. Locke. Let us not imagine that the first converts only of christianity were concerned to defend their religion.

Rogers.

CONV'ERTER. N.s. [from convert.] One

CONVERTIBILITY. n. s. [from converti that makes converts. ble.] The quality of being possible to be converted. CONVERTIBLE. adj. [from convert.] 1. Susceptible of change; transmutable; capable of transmutation.

Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus; nor reducible into another genus. Harvey

The gall is not an alkali; but it is alkalescent, conceptible and convertible into a corrosive alkali. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

2. So much alike as that one may be used for the other.

Though it be not the real essence of any substance, it is the specifick essence, to which our name belongs, and is convertible with it. Lacke.

Many that call themselves protestants, look upon our worship to be idolatrous as well as that of the papists; and put prelacy and popery to gether, as terms convertible. Swift. CONVERTIBLY.adv. [from convertible.] Reciprocally; with interchange of terms

There never was any person ungrateful, who was not also proud; nor convertibly, any one proud, who was not equally ungrateful. Sent. CONVERTITE. n. s. [converti, Fr.] A convert; one converted from another opinion. Not in use.

Since you are a gentle convertite, My tongue shall hush again this storm of war. Shakspeare. Nor would I be a convertite so cold, As not to tell it.

CONVEX. adj. [convexus, Lat.] Rising in a circular form; opposite to concave.

It is the duty of a painter, even in this also, to imitate the convex mirrour, and to place nothing which glares at the border of his picture. Dryd

An orb or ball round its own axis whirl; Will not the motion to a distance hurl Whatever dust or sand you on it place, And drops of water from its convex face? Black CONVEX. n. s. A convex body; a body swelling externally into a circular form.

A comet draws a long extended blaze; From east to west burns thro' th' ethereal flame, And half heav'n's convex glitters with the flame,

CONVEXED. particip. adj. [from convex.] Formed convex; protuberant in a cir

cular form.

Dolphins are straight; nor have they their spine convexed, or more considerably embored than either sharks, porpoises, whales, or other cetaceous animals. Brown's Vulgar Erruth CONVEXEDLY.adv. [from convexed. } In a convex form.

They be drawn convexedly crooked in one picor, yet the dolphin that carrieth Arion, is co cavously inverted, and hath its spine depressed. Brown's Vulgar Errasti. CONVE'XITY. n. s. [from convex.] Pro tuberance in a circular form.

Convex glasses supply the defect of plumpness in the eye; and, by increasing the refractios, make the rays converge sooner, so as to convene distinctly at the bottom of the eye, if the glas have a due degree of convexity. Net

If the eye were so piercing as to descry even opake and little objects a hundred leagues of, would do us little service: it would be terminat ed by neighbouring hills, and woods; or, in the

of the earth.

largest and evenest plain, by the very convexity Bentley. CONVEXLY. adv. [from convex.] In a convex form.

Almost all, both blunt and sharp, are convexly conical; they are all along convex, not only per ambitum, but between both ends. Grew, CONVEXNESS. n. s. [from convex.] Spheroidical protuberance; convexity. CONVEXO-CONCAVE. adj. Having the hollow on the inside corresponding to the external protuberance.

There are the phenomena of thick convexoconcave plates of glass which are every where of

the same thickness.

Newton.

I will convey them by sea, in floats, unto the place thou shalt appoint me. 1 Kings.

2. To hand from one to another.

A divine natural right could not be conveyed down, without any plain natural or divine rule concerning it. Locke.

3. To remove secretly.

There was one conveyed out of my house yesterday in this basket. Shakspeare. To bring any thing, as an instrument of transmission; to transmit.

Since there appears not to be any ideas in the mind, before the senses have conveyed any in, I conceive that ideas in the understanding are coeval with sensation. Locke.

5. To transfer; to deliver to another.

The earl of Desmond, before his breaking forth into rebellion, conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees in trust.

Spenser.

Adam's property or private dominion could not convey any sovereignty or rule to his heir; who, not having a right to inherit all his father's possessions, could not thereby come to have any sovereignty over his brethren. Locke. 6. To impart, by means of something. Men fill one another's heads with noise and sounds, but convey not thereby their thoughts.

Locke.

They give energy to our expressions, and convey our thoughts in more ardent and intense phrases than any in our own tongue. Addison.

7. To impart; to introduce.

What obscured light the heav'ns did grant, Did but convey unto our fearful minds A doubtful warrant of immediate death. Shaks. Others convey themselves into the mind by more senses than one. Locke.

8. To manage with privacy.

I will convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal. Shakspeare. Hugh Capet also, who usurp'd the crown, To fine his title with some shews of truth, Convey'd himself as heir to th' lady Lengare. Shakspeare. CONVEYANCE. n. s. [from convey.] 1. The act of removing any thing.

Tell her, thou mad'st away her uncle Clarence; Her uncle Rivers; ay, and for her sake, Mad'st quick conveyance with her good aunt Shakspeare.

Ann.

2.

Way for carriage or transportation. Following the river downward there is com veyance into the countries named in the text. Raleigh's Hist. of World Iron works ought to be confined to places where there is no conveyance for timber to places of vent, so as to quit the cost of the carriage.

Temple. 3. The method of removing secretly from one place to another.

4.

Your husband's here at hand; bethink you of some conveyance: in the house you cannot hide him. Shakspeare.

The means or instrument by which any thing is conveyed.

We powt upon the morning, are unapt To give or to forgive; but when we 've stuff"; These pipes, and these conyances of blood, With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls. Shakspeare's Coriolanus.

How such a variety of motions should be regularly conducted, in such a wilderness of passages and distinct avenues, by mere impellents and material conveyances, I have not the least conjecture. Glan. San. Dog5. Transmission; delivery from one to

another.

Our author has provided for the descending and conveyance down of Adarn's monarchical power, or paternal dominion, to posterity. Locke. 6. Act of transferring property, grant.

Doth not the act of the parents, in any lawful grant or conveyance, bind their heirs for ever thereunto? Spenser on Ireland.

7. Writing by which property is trans

ferred.

The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more? Shakspeare.

This begot a suit in the chancery before the lord Coventry; who found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon.

8. Secret management; juggling artifice; private removal; secret substitution of one thing for another.

It cometh herein to pass with men, unadvisedly fallen into error, as with them whose state hath no ground to uphold it, but only the help which, by subtile conveyance, they draw out of casual events, arising from day to day, till at length they be clean spent. Hooker.

Close conveyance, and each practice ill Of cosinage and knavery.

Spenser.

I am this day come to survey the Tower; Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance. Shakspeare.

Can they not juggle, and with slight Conveyance play with wrong and right? Hudib CONVEYANCER. n. s. [from conveyance.] A lawyer who draws writings by which CONVEYER. n. s. [from convey.] One property is transferred. who carries or transmits any thing from one place or person to another. >

The conveyers of waters of these times content themselves with one inch of fall in six hundred feet. Brerewood en Languages. Those who stand before earthly princes, in the nearest degree of approach, who are the dispen sers of their favours, and conveyers of their will, to others, do, on that very account, challenge high honours to themselves. Atterbury.

To CONVICT. v. a. [convinco, Lati] 1. To prove guilty; to detect in guilt.

And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. Febr.

2. To confute; to discover to be false.

Although not only the reason of any head, but experience of every hand, may well convict it, yet will it not by divers be rejected. Brown, 3. To show by proof or evidence.

If there be no such thing apparent upon record, they do as if one should demand a legacy by virtue of some written testament, wherein there being no such thing specified, he pleadeth that there it must needs be, and bringeth arguments from the love which always the testator bore him; imagining that these proofs will convict a testament to have that in it, which other men can no where by reading find. Hooker.

Things, that at the first shew seemed possible, by ripping up the performance of them, have been convicted of impossibility. Bacon. CONVICT. adj. [rather the participle of the verb.] Convicted; detected in guilt. Before I be convict by course of law, To threaten me with death, is most unlawful. Shakspeare.

By the civil law, a person convict, or confessing his own crime, cannot appeal.

Ayliffe. Convict a papist he, and I a poct. Pope. CONVICT. n. s. [from the verb.] A person cast at the bar; one found guilty of the crime charged against him; a criminal detected at his trial.

On the score of humanity, the civil law allows

ment.

a certain space of time both to the convict and to persons confessing, in order to satisfy the judgAyliffe's Parergan. CONVICTION. n. s. [from convict.] 3. Detection of guilt; which is, in law, either when a man is outlawed, or appears and confesses, or else is found guilty by the inquest.

Corell.

Milt.

The third best absent is condemn'd, Convict by flight, and rebel to all law; Conviction to the serpent none belongs. 2. The act of convincing; confutation; the act of forcing others, by argument, to allow a position.

When therefore the apostle requireth hability to convict hereticks, can we think he judgeth it a thing unlawful, and not rather needful, to use the principal instrument of their conviction, the light of reason? Hooker.

The manner of his conviction was designed, not as a peculiar privilege to him, but as a standing miracle, a lasting argument for the conviction of others, to the very end of the world. Atterb. 3. State of being convinced.

Their wisdom is only of this world; to put false colours upon things, to call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences. Swift. CONVICTIVE. adj. [from convict.] Ilaving the power of convincing.

To CONVINCE. v. a. [convinco, Lat.] 1. To force any one to acknowledge a contested position.

That which I have all this while been endeavouring to convince men of, and to persuade them to, is no other but what God himself doth particularly recommend to us, as proper for human consideration. Tillotson. But, having shifted ev'ry form to 'scape, Convinc'd of conquest, he resum'd his shape. Dryden. "History is all the light we have in many cases; and we receive from it a great part of the useful truths we have, with a convincing evidence. Locke, 2. To convict; to prove guilty of.

To convince all that are ungodly among them, all their ungodly deeds. Jude.

O! seek not to convince me of a crime, Which I can ne'er repent, nor can you pardon. Dryan 3. To evince; to prove; to manifest; to vindicate. Not in use.

Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier, to convince the honour of my mistress. Shakspeare's Gymbetur.

This letter, instead of a confutation, caly urgeth me to prove divers passages of my se mon, which M. Cheynel's part was to convint Dr. Mass

4. To overpower; to surmount. Obso lete.

There are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure; their malady convincer The great essay of art. Shakspurs

Knaves be such abroad, Who having, by their own importunate suit, Or voluntary dotage of some mistress, Convinc'd or suppled them, they cannot chuse But they must blab. Shakspeare When Duncan is asleep, his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassel so convince, That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume.

Shakspeare CONVINCEMENT. x. s. [from convince.]

Conviction.

If that be not convincement enough, let him weigh the other also. Decay of Piety. CONVINCIBLE. adj. [from convince.] 1. Capable of conviction. 2. Capable of being evidently disproved or detected.

Upon what uncertainties, and also convincibla falsities, they often erected such emblems, we have delivered. Browe. CONVINCINGLY. adv. [from convince.] In such a manner as to leave no room for doubt or dispute; so as to produce conviction.

This he did so particularly and convincingly, that those of the parliament were in great confusion. Clarendon

The resurrection is so convincingly attested by such persons, with such circumstances, that they who consider and weigh the testimony, at what distance soever they are placed, cannot entertain any more doubt of the resurrection than the crucifixion of Jesus. Atterbury. CONVINCINGNESS, n.5. [from convins. ing. The power of convincing. To CONVIVE. v. a. [convivo, Latin.] To entertain; to feast. A word, I believe, not elsewhere used.

First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent; There in the full cometo, you Shak. Tro.and Cra. CONVIVAL. adj. [convivalis, Latin] CONVIVIAL. S Relating to an enter tainment; festal; social.

I was the first who set up festivals; Not with high tastes our appetites did force, But fill'd with conversation and discourse; Which feasts, convivial meetings we did name. Denbam.

Your social and convivial spirit is such, that it is a happiness to live and converse with you. Dr. Newte CONUNDRUM, 7. 5. A low jest; a quibble: a mean conceit: a cint word.

Mean time he smoaks, and laughs at meny tale, Or pun amb uous, or senundrum quaint. Philigi,

The husbandman suffers by hares and conys, which eat the corn and trees. Mortimer..

CONY-BOROUGH. n. s. A place where rabbits make their holes in the ground. To CO'NYCATCH. v. n. To catch a cony, is, in the old cant of thieves, to cheat; to bite; to trick.

I have matter in my head against you, and against your conycatching rascals. Shakspeare. CO'NYCATCHER. n. s. A thief; a cheat; a sharper; a tricking fellow; a rascal. Obsolete.

To Coo. v. n. [from the sound.] To cry as a dove or pigeon.

The stockdove only through the forest cooes, Mournfully hoarse. Thomson's Summer. COOK. n. s. [coquus, Lat.] One whose profession is to dress and prepare victuals for the table.

One mistress Quickly is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry-nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer. Shakspeare.

The new-born babe by nurses overlaid, And the cook caught within the raging fire he made. Dryden.

Their cooks could make artificial birds and fishes, in default of the real ones, and which exceeded them in the exquisiteness of the taste. Arbuthnot on Coins.

COOK-MAID. n. s. [cook and maid.] A maid that dresses provisions.

A friend was complaining to me, that his wife had turned off one of the best cook-maids in England. Addison.

COOK-ROOM. n. s. [cook and room.] A - room in which provisions are prepared for the ship's crew; the kitchen of a ship.

The commodity of this new cook-room the merchants having found to be so great, as that in all their ships the cook-rooms are built in their fore-castles, contrary to that which had been anciently used. Raleigh's Essays.

To Cook, v. a. [coquo, Lat.]
1. To prepare victuals for the table.

Had either of the crimes been cooked to their
palates, they might have changed messes.
Decay of Piety.

2. To prepare for any purpose. Hanging is the word, sir; if you be ready for that, you are well cookt. Shakspeare. Coo'KERY. n. s. [from cook.] The art of dressing victuals.

Some man's wit

Found th' art of cook'ry to delight his sense:

More bodies are consum'd and kill'd with it, Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence. Dav. Ev'ry one to cookery pretends. King's Cookery, These are the ingredients of plants before they are prepared by cookery. Arbuthnot. COOL. adj. [koelen, Dutch.] 1. Somewhat cold; approaching to cold. He set his leg in a pail-full, as hot as he could well endure it, renewing it as it grew cool.

Temple. 2. Not zealous; not ardent; not angry; not fond; without passion: as, a cool friend; a cool deceiver.

COOL. n. s. Freedom from heat; soft and refreshing coldness.

But see, where Lucia, at her wonted hour, Amid the cool of yon high marble arch, Enjoys the noon-day breeze!

Addison.

Philander was enjoying the cool of the morning,

2. To quiet passion; to calm anger; to moderate zeal.

My lord Northumberland will soon be old Shakspeare's Henry IV. He will keep his jealousy to himself, and repine in private, because he will be apt to fear some ill effect it may produce in cooling your love to him. Addison's Spectator.

Had they thought they had been fighting only other people's quarrels, perhaps it might have cooled their zeal. Sunft.

To COOL. v. n.
1. To grow less hot.

2. To grow less warm with regard to passion or inclination.

My humour shall not cool: I will incense Ford to deal with poison; I will possess him with yellowness. Shakspeare You never cool while you read Homer. Dr. I'm impatient till it be done; I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool. Congreve's Old Bachelor. Co'OLER. n. s. [from cool.] 1. That which has the power of cooling the body.

2.

Coolers are of two sorts: first, those which produce an immediate sense of cold, which are such as have their parts in less motion than those of the organs of feeling; and secondly, such as, by particular viscidity, or grossness of parts, give a greater consistence to the animal fluids than they had before, whereby they cannot move so fast, and therefore will have less of that intestine force on which their heat depends. The former are fruits, all acid liquors, and common water; and the latter are such as cucumbers, and all substances producing viscidity.

Quincy

In dogs or cats there appeared the same necessity for a cooler as in man. Harry Acid things were used only as coolers. Arbuthnot on Aliments. A vessel in which any thing is made cool.

Your first wort being thus boiled, lade off into one or more coolers, or cool-backs, in which leave the sullage behind, and let it run off fine. Mortimer's Husbandry. Co'OLLY. adv. [from cool.] 1. Without heat, or sharp cold. She in the gelid caverns, woodbine wrought, And fresh bedew'd with ever-spouting streams, Sits coolly calm. Thomson's Summer

2. Without passion.

Motives that address themselves coolly to our reason, are fittest to be employed upon reason able creatures. Atterbury

Co'OLNESS. n. s. [from cool.] 1. Gentle cold; a soft or mild degree of

cold.

This difference consisteth not in the heat of coolness of spirits; for cloves and other spices, naptha, and petroleum, have exceeding hot spa rits, hotter a great deal than oil, wax, or tallow, but not inflamed. Bacon's Natural History, The toad loveth shade and coolness. Bach Yonder the harvest of cold months laid up,