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( Metallurgy.) The ve el which is used to hold the iron or carbide of iron which is to be converted into steel, in the Be emer proce . See STEEL. Con'way, MONCURE DANIEL, writer, was born in Stafford co., Va., March 17, 1832. He was educated at Dick in son College, Car lisle, Pa.; subsequently attended the Harvard Theological School. Before his attendance at Harvard he had for a short time officiated as a Methodist preacher. After his graduation he adopted the Unitarian faith. The influence of his Rejected Stone was, according to Charles Sumner, greater than that of any other published work toward hastening the emancipation of the slave. He spent a number of years in London, advocating the Union cause, and preaching in the South Place Chapel, London. His books include: Thomas Carlyle; Life of Thomas Paine; Emerson at Home and Abroad; Sacred Anthology; . He contributed numerous articles to the magazines and newspapers. Con'way, in Arkansas , a town, the capital of Faulkner co., 31 m. N. W. of Little Rock. Ships cotton and cotton-seed oil. Pop . (1897) about 1,850.