CONVOY

(Fr. conveyer, to condtict.) In Navigation, tlie term applied to designate a ship or ships of war, appoint(!d by government, or by the commander in chief on a particular station, to escort or protect the merchant 279 COPPER. ships proceeding to certain ports. Convoys are mostly appointed during war; but they are sometimes also appomted during peace, for the security of ships navigating seas infested with pirates. For an account of the various regulations and conditions relative to convoys, see MCulloch's Com. Diet. Convoy, in the Military service, signifies a detachment of troops appointed to guard supplies of provisions, ammunition, or money, in their progre to a distant part of any country, or to an army in the field, against an attack which might be made upon them either by the peasantry or by parties of the eneiny. [s. 292] A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art — W. T. Brande (1st Ed.) ana Sözlük (A–Z)