conveyer (konvaer)

1. One who conveys; one who or that which conveys, carries, transports, transmits, or transfers from one person or place to another. Also sometimes conveyor. On the surface of the earth, the dense matter is itself, in great part, the conveyer of the undulations in which these agents [light and heat] consist. W. R. Grove, Corr. of Forces, p. 138. Though the presumptuous a e make a convey of all his lands to the usurer. Greene, Quip for an Upstart Courtier (Harl. Misc., v. 403). 2. An escort; a convoy. The day following, we were faine to hire a strong convey of about 30 firelocks to guard us through the Cork woods. Evelyn , Memoirs. conveyable (kon-vā'a-bl), a. [ convey + -able .] Capable of being conveyed or transferred. conveyance (kon-vā'ans), n. [ The eare is properly but an instrument of conveyance for the minde, to apprehend the sence by the sound. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 164. I shall send you Account by Conveyance of Mr. Symus. Howell, Letters, I. i. 28. Pre scott . The long journey was to be performed on horseback the only sure mode of conveyance . 2. In law : ( a ) The act of transferring property from one person to another, as by "lease and release," "bargain and sale"; transfer. 2. Specifically, a mechanical contrivance for carrying objects. Applied to those adaptations of bran, etc., in threshers, elevators, or grinding-mills, or materials to upper stories of warehouses or shops, or buildings in course of erection. Also applied to those arrangements of carriages traveling on ropes by which hay lifted by the horse-fork is conveyed to distant parts of a barn or mow, or materials are carried to a building. E. H. Knight. 3t. An impostor; a cheat; a thief. Boling. Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower. K. Rich . O, good! Convey? Conveyers are you all, That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall. Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. conveyor (kon-vā'or), n. See conveyer, 1. conviciatet (kon-vish'i-at), v. t. [Also written con vitiate; To con viciate instead of accusing. Laud .