Part 2389

<blockquote><b>Convey</b> me to my bed, then to my grave. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; <as>as, air <ex>conveys</ex> sound; words <ex>convey</ex> ideas.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly <fld>(Law)</fld>, to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.</def>

<blockquote>The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly <b>conveyed</b> all his lands to feoffees in trust. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To impart or communicate; <as>as, to <ex>convey</ex> an impression; to <ex>convey</ex> information.</as></def>

<blockquote>Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but <b>convey</b> not thereby their thoughts. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To manage with privacy; to carry out.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I . . . will <b>convey</b> the business as I shall find means. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To accompany; to convoy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To carry; transport; bear; transmit; trnsfer.</syn>

<h1>Convey</h1> <Xpage=318>

<hw>Con*vey"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To play the thief; to steal.</def> <mark></mark>

<blockquote>But as I am Crack, I will <b>convey</b>, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. <i>Marston.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Conveyable</h1> <Xpage=318>

<hw>Con*vey"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being conveyed or transferred.</def>

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Conveyance</h1> <Xpage=318>

<hw>Con*vey"ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.</def>

<blockquote>The long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of <b>conveyamce</b>. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Following th river downward, there is <b>conveyance</b> into the countries named in the text. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; <as>as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are <ex>conveyances</ex>; a canal or aqueduct is a <ex>conveyance</ex> for water</as>.</def>

<blockquote>There pipes and these <b>conveyances</b> of our blood. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.</def>

<blockquote>Tradition is no infallible way of <b>conveyance</b>. <i>Stillingfleet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.</def>

<blockquote> found the <b>conveyances</b> in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>