conveyancen.
/kənˈveɪəns/, U.S. /kənˈveɪəns/ I. The action or process of conveying.† 1. Convoying, escorting, or conducting; conduct. Obsolete.† 3. Carrying away, removal, riddance. Obsolete.attributive.1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. 9 By suddenly stopping a cock from which water flows you may burst the conveyance pipe.† 9. † c. with plural. An expression. Obsolete.† 10. Carrying on, conduct, management (of an affair); carrying out, execution. Also in Music, Execution. Obsolete.† 11. † b. esp. Cunning management or contrivance; underhand dealing, jugglery, sleight of hand. Obsolete.† c. (with a and plural) A secret or cunning device, an artifice, a trick of jugglery. Obsolete.† d. concrete. An ingenious device, a contrivance.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > an honourable escort > the act of
conveyance1503
convoy1557
convey1611
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 27 Preamb., For sure conveyaunce of the Marchaundises to the seid Staple at Cales.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 285 To his conueyance I assigne my wife. View more context for this quotation
2. † b. with subjective genitive. Obsolete.† c. The carrying of a communication. Obsolete.
a. The action of carrying or transporting; the carriage of persons or goods from one place to another. (Formerly used more widely.)
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society > travel > transport > [noun]
carryinga1382
passinga1382
carriage1423
portage1423
traduction1500
transporting1500
conveyancec1520
transportation1540
convoy1554
wafting1559
transportage1562
convey1587
portation1598
transportance1609
transport1611
weftage1615
conducta1618
vecture1625
vectitation1656
transit1753
messagerie1878
conveyal1886
intermodalism1979
the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting
adductiona1398
carriage1423
conveying1483
transporting1500
conveyancec1520
convey1587
transportance1609
transport1611
transvection1615
transportal1837
c1520 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 206 Pro vjxx fawdom long lyne for the convaans of the schryne.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 63 For ther ys convehams [sic] of many thyngys necessary to the use of our pepul.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 302 For the conueyaunce and bringing ouer of the French king, and his other Prisoners into England.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cxiv. 310 Peregrine was forcibly separated from his charmer, during the conveyance.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. viii. 190 Desirous only of conveyance home.
1870 in R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board IV. xlv. 462 Postal arrangements for the conveyance of money, as well as letters.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 673 In sailing or any other mode of conveyance which is not fatiguing.
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c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxx. 427 When..Huon was in his bedde he lay and studyed of the conuayaunce of the Gryffon [i.e. the griffin's carrying of men].
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1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 117 Euen in absence hee extolleth his patron, where hee may presume of safe conueiance to his eares.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. I. i. ix. 92 Gods strange conueyance of this offer to mee.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away
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remuingc1330
withdraught1340
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discharginga1398
removinga1398
remotiona1425
subtraction?a1425
amovingc1443
taking offc1450
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way-taking1479
substracting1549
conveyance1567
sublation1567
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removal1595
exemption1598
substraction1601
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amovement1618
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conveying1621
amolitiona1641
withdrawment1640
subducting1645
suffuration1651
summotion1653
amoval1657
withdraw1720
withdrawal1838
removement1846
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 90 The best riddance or conueiaunce that they haue of such discommodities.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 269 Thou..Madst quicke conueiance with her good Aunt Anne. View more context for this quotation
1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 176 A very cleanly conveyance..for Parents to be rid of their unruly Children. [With word-play on sense 11b.]
4. Furtive or light-fingered carrying off; stealing. (Sometimes associated with sleight of hand or jugglery: see sense 11b.)
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the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > [noun]
surreption1526
conveyancea1529
subductiona1646
snicking1673
abstraction1823
snitching1933
grazing1979
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun]
theft688
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stealing13..
stealtha1325
lifting1362
briberya1387
stoutheriec1440
larcenya1475
larcerya1500
conveyancea1529
thieving1530
bribing1533
larcinc1535
embezzling1540
embezzlement1548
thiefdom?1549
theftdom1566
bribering1567
milling1567
thievery1568
larcinry1634
panyarring1703
abduction1766
smugging1825
pickup1846
lurking1851
make1860
tea-leafing1899
snitching1933
lapping1950
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biii Cr. Con. What counterfet countenaunce C. Count. What crafty conueyaunce.
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. E4 A certaine Gentleman..stole a peece of plate..at a banket; the conueyance was not so cleanly, but one had spyed it.
a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. F1 Ha, cleanly conveyance agen, ye have no invisible fingers have ye? 'Tis gone certainly.
1779 S. Johnson Smith in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 40 The simile..is stolen from Cowley, however little worth the labour of conveyance.
5. The communicating or imparting (of a thing to any one).
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society > communication > [noun]
communication?1532
intercommunication1586
correspondence1605
correspondency1613
conveyance1662
the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > imparting
communicationc1384
impartment1604
imparture1610
imparting1611
conveyance1662
impartance1811
impartation1828
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. i. §1 The matter to be believed should have a certain uniform conveyance to mens minds.
1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 367 If the putting on Christ carries with it a Conveyance of the Holy Spirit.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 561 Ghostly counsel, if it..be dishonour'd in th' exterior form and mode of its conveyance.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1876) 4th Ser. v. 69 Absolution is the conveyance to the conscience of the conviction of forgiveness.
6. Transmission, transference, handing from one to another.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > transmission or passing on
communicationc1384
delation1578
transfusion1578
transmission1611
conveyance1646
transmitting1671
transmit1672
transmittal1735
transmittance1855
passage1860
transjection?1867
1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. xxv. 120 This body of Adam was embalmed and transmitted from Father to Sonne by a Reverend and Religious way of conveighance.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. vi. §5 In those things which had no certain conveyance to posterity.
1850 W. E. Gladstone Remarks Royal Supremacy 22 It is expressly affirmed..to be valid in very deed as to the conveyance of the episcopal character.
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a. Law. The transference of property (esp. real property) from one person to another by any lawful act (in modern use only by deed or writing between living persons).
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society > law > transfer of property > [noun]
release1344
alienationc1425
conveying1483
transportc1485
state making1487
conveyance1523
designation1573
transferring1573
assignation1579
dispose1591
assignment1592
convey1592
disposing1638
disposurea1649
attornment1650
abalienation1656
transfer1674
disposal1697
conveyancing1714
transference1766
disposition1861
society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > agreement effecting transfer of property
lease1483
conveyance1523
contract1641
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > by deed or charter
conveyance1523
assurance1583
granta1599
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng Prol. sig. B2v If the owner make a true pee, degre, or conueyaunce, by discente or by purchace vnto the said landes or lordshippes.
1571 Act 13 Eliz. c. 5 Covenous and fraudulent..conveyaunces..as well of landes and tenementes as of goodes and catals.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. L3v Signior Prospero might make a conueiance of Hesperida to my maister. View more context for this quotation
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 66 Where did he assigne it [sc. the tithe], or by what evident conveyance to ministers?
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) Pref. p. ix The law upheld the conveyance to uses which he had made.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iii. 15 He has the original Deed of Conveyance to the Fortunate Islands.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 79 A fine being considered as a common assurance or conveyance of real property.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. vi. 209 The conveyance of land in England is most cumbrous and costly.
b. The written instrument or document by which this transference is effected.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun]
releasea1393
conveyance1576
pancart1577
panchart1587
assignment1592
common assurances1648
chirograph1727
transport brief1895
transport deed1895
1576 A. Fleming tr. Nucillus in Panoplie Epist. 240 Your father left you nothing either by deede of gift, testament, or any other conveyance.
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet 31 These Martins make the Scriptures a Scriueners-shop to drawe conueyances.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 107 Why that same boxe there will scarse Holde the conueiance of his land.
1626 S. D'Ewes Jrnl. Parl. (1783) 35 All particulars to bee inserted into the marriage-conveyance.
1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 65 To Daniel Storer, for copying and ingrossing the conveyances made by Sir Wm Poultney and others of the ground and houses bought by his said late Majesty to enlarge St. James Parke.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 309 [Deeds] used in the alienation of real estates..are commonly denominated conveyances.
1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) ii. 26 His brother Gilbert received the conveyance for him.
1893 N.E.D. at Conveyance Mod. (Indorsement of purchase-deed or draft), Conveyance of messuage and hereditaments at Stoke in the county of X.
8. The conveying or conducting of running water, air, heat, electricity, or the like, by a suitable channel or medium.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > conveying by a channel or medium
convoyance1543
conveyance1577
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 49v Conueiance by Conduite, or Pompe, or running streame.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 125 Disposing Veines and Arteries throughout the bodie, for their apt conveyance of the bloud and spirit.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub i. 37 If it be upon its Decay, 'tis the better..for Conveyance of Sound.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 176 An aperture..at the top, for the conveyance of smoke.
1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 144 Pipes for the conveyance of gas, water, or other fluid.
1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) §403 There will be a conveyance of heat from the first to the second.
a. The conveying of meaning by words; expression, or clothing of thought in language; disposition of material in a poem, etc.
b. Manner of expressing thought, form of expression or utterance, style. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun]
writingc1350
mannerc1375
pena1387
langue?a1400
indite1501
rate1517
conveyance?1521
composition1532
turn1533
set1535
tune1537
style1577
composure1601
way1612
language1699
rhetoricity1921
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Avj Mercury giueth, to poetes laureate Goodly conueyaunce, speche pleasaunt and ornate.
1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lxxxv Howbeeit concernyng that opinion menne maie se the conueighaunce thereof in the life of..Henry the .vii.
1551 R. Robinson in tr. T. More Vtopia Epist. sig. ✠iiii Ye wittie inuencion, & fine conueiaunce, or disposition of ye matter.
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 98v The profound learning that was in him, as also his singular art for conueyance.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 342 The conveyaunce of his matter is manifest and perceivable.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching Ep. Ded. f. 3v I shewed no elegant phrases, nor fine figuratiue conueiance in my first booke.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) This Inuectiue..howbeit both the termes & conueyance are somewhat hard, yet is it in such cases very tolerable.
1601 R. Johnson in tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat sig. A2v The imperfections in the harsh composure, and conueiance of the stile.
a1699 J. Kirkton Hist. J. Welsh (1703) 8 No man could..forbear Weeping; His Conveyance was so affecting.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 79 The soft conveyance of a female patriot bewailing the miseries of her..fellow-citizens.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > term or expression
wordeOE
terma1398
conveyance1586
epithet1600
terminations1600
notion1655
description1826
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. B8v By diuers Epithetts and fine conueyances.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > [noun]
suinga1325
prosecution1545
conveyance1572
through-handlinga1586
carriage1589
pursuita1631
throughing1638
pursuance1642
persecution1647
transaction1655
pursual1878
follow-up1904
follow-through1918
society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration
dispositionc1374
ministrationc1390
disposing1406
procuration?a1425
guidingc1425
economy?1440
conduct1454
solicitation1492
regimenta1500
mayning1527
enterprisea1533
handlinga1538
conduction1565
manyment1567
disposure1569
conveyance1572
managing1579
disposement1583
government1587
carriage1589
manage1591
steerage1597
management1598
steering1599
manurance1604
fixing1605
dispose1611
administry?1616
husbandry1636
dispensatorship1637
admin1641
managery1643
disposal1649
mesnagery1653
contrectation1786
conducting1793
wielding1820
managership1864
operation1872
operating1913
case management1918
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > power and skill in
conveyance1572
execution1751
musicianship1829
virtuosity1831
musicality1839
virtuosoship1848
executancy1858
histrionics1931
chops1968
1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes i. vi. 27 [She] declared the slye conueyance of this horrible deede vnto hir husbande.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xi. 172 By the orderly conueyance of things which he seeth both aboue and beneath; by the order which they keepe without fayling.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 150 One with a quicke hand playing vpon an instrument..will by the hast of his conueiance cloke manie faultes.
1603 S. Daniel in J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. Pref. Verse sig. ¶v As a guest in gratefulnesse..Might spare to tax th'vnapt conuayances.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe v. sig. Gv My reuenge will haue a more neate and unexpected conueyance.
a1652 R. Brome Madd Couple Well Matcht iv. ii, in Wks. (1873) I. 69 Full directions for the conveyance of our designe.
a. Manner of managing or conducting; skilful management, skill; generalship. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill in managing or directing
conductc1515
conveyance?1531
convoyance1578
conduction1579
direction1585
leading1598
managementa1715
generalship1759
coachmanship1776
stick-handling1969
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. g6v Sith such a patrone, so greatlye commended for his conveyaunce and wysedome, handleth this matter.
1586 T. Bowes in tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. Ep. Ded. sig. *vv In..the world, there is most excellent conueiance without confusion.
1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll ii. sig. B4v Marke the conueiance of this louelie hand.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. iv. 53 Neither is a Commaunder the lesse valued for fine conueyance in militarie proiects.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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swikedomc893
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falsec1000
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swikelnessa1023
fakenOE
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fikenungc1175
bipechingc1200
treachery?c1225
falseshipc1230
guilec1230
telingc1230
swikeheada1250
craftc1275
felony1297
wrench1297
deceitc1300
gabc1300
guiling13..
guilery1303
quaintisec1325
wrenk1338
beswiking1340
falsehood1340
abetc1350
wissing1357
wilec1374
faitery1377
faiting1377
tregetryc1380
fallacec1384
trainc1390
coverture1393
facrere1393
ficklenessc1397
falsagea1400
tregeta1400
abusionc1405
blearingc1405
deceptionc1430
mean?c1430
tricotc1430
obreption1465
fallacy1481
japery1496
gauderya1529
fallax1530
conveyance1531
legerdemain1532
dole1538
trompe1547
joukery1562
convoyance1578
forgery1582
abetment1586
outreaching1587
chicanery1589
falsery1594
falsity1603
fubbery1604
renaldry1612
supercherie1621
circumduction1623
fobbinga1627
dice-play1633
beguile1637
fallaxitya1641
ingannation1646
hocus1652
renardism1661
dodgerya1670
knapping1671
trap1681
joukery-pawkery1686
jugglery1699
take-in1772
tripotage1779
trickery1801
ruse1807
dupery1816
nailing1819
pawkery1820
hanky-panky1841
hokey-pokey1847
suck-in1856
phenakisma1863
skulduggery1867
sharp practice1869
dodginess1871
jiggery-pokery1893
flim-flammery1898
runaround1915
hanky1924
to give the go-around1925
Scandiknavery1927
the twist1933
hype1955
mamaguy1971
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun]
colea1307
jugglingc1380
tregetryc1380
jugglerya1400
tregettingc1440
legerdemaina1450
jocularya1500
conveyance1531
prestigiation?c1550
conjuring1577
figgum1631
prestigion1635
sleight of handa1640
hocus-pocus1647
sleight1664
jugglementa1708
thaumaturgy1727
conjurationa1734
ventriloquism1797
magic1831
prestidigitation1841
hocus1854
conjury1855
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > management or contrivance
conveyance1531
convoyance1578
managery1646
management1667
joukery-cookery1822
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]
falsec1000
fraudc1330
barrat1340
faitery1377
defraudc1450
trumpery1481
covin1487
defraudationc1503
knavery1528
conveyance1531
imposture1537
defrauding1548
cozenage1583
impostry1585
catch-dolt1592
gullery1598
coggery1602
gullage1607
charlatism1611
impostury1615
quacksalvery1617
mountebankery1618
imposition1632
imposturisma1634
blaflum1637
charlatanry1638
defraudment1645
mountebankism1649
impostorya1652
impostorism1652
imposturage1654
impostery1656
mountebank1657
imposing1659
quackery1675
quackism1722
empiricism1774
cross1802
charlatanism1804
practitionery1818
cozenry1829
humbuggery1831
trick1833
thimble-shift1834
thimble-shifting1834
thimbleriggery1841
humbuggism1842
quackhood1843
quacksalverism1864
razzle-dazzle1928
spivery1948
shuck1958
shucking and jiving1969
1531 T. Elyot Gouernour i. xxvi. sig. Mvv If they be taken with any crafty conueiaunce.
1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 211 In an euill cause, muche arte and conueyaunce must be vsed, afore it can appere good.
1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 281 Miracles be wrought..sometime by the conueiance of the Diuell.
1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. G3v The deepest wit could not haue bettered, Our smooth conueyance.
1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 278 He hath a sleight of hand, or cleanly conveiance, which threaten silver spoones.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iv. 2 I am come to suruey the Tower this day; Since Henries death, I feare there is Conueyance . View more context for this quotation
1625 W. Pemble Justification (1629) 34 Arminius..vsed much closenesse & cunning conveyance.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 30 The dexterity and conveiance of his nonsense.
a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 93 The legerdemain must be clean and the conveyance impenetrable to the eye of the people.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > a wile or cunning device
wrenchc888
craftOE
turnc1225
ginc1275
play?a1300
enginec1300
wrenkc1325
forsetc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
cautel138.
subtletya1393
wilea1400
tramc1400
wrinkle1402
artc1405
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
subtiltyc1440
jeopardy1487
jouk1513
pawka1522
frask1524
false point?1528
conveyance1534
compass1540
fineness1546
far-fetch?a1562
stratagem1561
finesse1562
entrapping1564
convoyance1578
lift1592
imagine1594
agitation1600
subtleship1614
artifice1620
navation1628
wimple1638
rig1640
lapwing stratagem1676
feint1679
undercraft1691
fly-flap1726
management1736
fakement1811
old tricka1822
fake1829
trickeration1940
swiftie1945
shrewdie1961
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick
colea1307
playa1475
conveyance1534
legerdemain?1544
prank1555
convoyance1578
sleight1596
pass1599
paviea1605
trick1609
sleight of handa1626
hocus-pocus1647
juggle1664
hocus-trickc1680
passe-passe1687
jugglementa1708
thaumaturgics1721
necromantics1745
conjuration1820
1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1397/1 Youre subtyle conueyghaunces.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 57 That..is an other conueyance to blinde thy sight.
1565–78 T. Cooper Thesaurus Pilarius..A juggler that playeth his conueighances with little round balles.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I2 All Italionate conueyances, as to kill a man, and then mourne for him.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 533 Their wyles, sleights, close-conueyances.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 22 A pretty slip-skin conveyance.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 332 They are deterrd from poor and skulking conveyances.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance
compassinga1300
graithc1375
jetc1380
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quaint?a1450
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device1570
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address1598
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fabric1600
machine1648
fancy1665
art1667
fanglementa1670
convenience1671
conveniency1725
contraption1825
affair1835
rig1845
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. H3v The deuiser of this rare conueyance.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. R Sundry little pieces of..marble in checker worke, and other most exquisite conueyances.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Mm A very large spheare beautified wittie many cunning conueighances and wittie inuentions.
II. A way or means of conveying.† 14. figurative. A means or medium for communicating; an organ or channel of communication; a ‘vehicle’ (of thought, etc.). Obsolete.
12. A conducting way, passage, or channel.† a. A way of communication, a passage. Sometimes, a private or secret passage. Also figurative.† b. A channel for conveying water, steam, smoke, electricity, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun]
patheOE
gangOE
gangwayOE
passagec1300
wenta1325
goingc1350
transit1440
way-wenta1450
accessa1460
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passageway?1606
pass1608
way-ganga1628
approach1633
duct1670
waygate?c1690
way-goa1694
vent1715
archway1802
passway1825
approach road1833
fairway1903
1542 N. Vyllagon Lamentable & Piteous Treat. in Harleian Misc. (1808) I. 237 Our enemye, knowynge the places and conueighaunces of the countrees.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxxix. 867 [Badgers] holes are deepe and narrowe..consisting of many conueiances and passages.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxxi. 156 To keepe..this window as it were of the soule, to be master of this conveighance, by which so much comes in and goes out of the soule.
1642 R. Carpenter Experience iv. p. vii Scarce a House..which they have not fitted with private doores and conveyances.
1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 173 Stopping up the Conveyance they had made under their Walls.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube
conduit1340
conveyance1577
forcer1598
lead1598
suspiracle1598
trunk1610
by-conduit1631
ducture1670
boxing1683
duct1713
launder1736
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 108 For conueyances of water, the Alder..and the Pitche tree, are best made in pipes.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 125 Vnder the mouthes of the vpper ouens are conueyances for smoke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. i. 54 These Pipes, and these Conueyances of our blood. View more context for this quotation
1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 26 There must be 3 conveiances for the wind.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 300 A free Circulation through the minutist Conveyances of the Humane Machine.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §308 If struck with lightning, it would thus far be a sufficient conveyance; then joining the kitchen grate to the leaden sink by a metal conveyance.
c. A conducting pipe in an organ; see quots.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > conducting pipe
port-vent1728
conveyance1840
trunk1852
wind-trunk1858
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 492 One of the front pipes, to which the wind is conveyed by metal tubes called conveyances.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) v. 40 The pipes in the front of the case [of an organ]..are supplied with wind from the wind-chest by means of pipes of metal, tin, or wood, called conveyances, which carry the wind from the sound~board to those pipes at a distance.
13. A means of transport from place to place, a carriage, a vehicle: now, esp. applied to anything used to convey persons as passengers, e.g. any kind of private or public vehicle, a railway carriage, a boat, ship, etc. Formerly applicable also to a beast of burden: cf. carriage n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > [noun]
passagec1300
carriagea1398
port1598
conveyancea1616
vehicle1641
conveniency1660
convenience1671
machine1687
voiture1698
transportation1853
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun]
cartc1175
whirlicotec1381
conveyancea1616
charrey1640
carriage1727
button1794
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 119 Your husband's heere at hand, bethinke you of some conueyance: in the house you cannot hide him. View more context for this quotation
1649 E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 126 The last letters you sent were by Mr. Hardings conveyance.
1702 R. Nelson in Pepys' Diary VI. 256 The conveniency of public conveyances.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 337 Mules are the only conveyance which can safely be trusted. View more context for this quotation
1825 C. Wordsworth Let. in Overton Life (1888) 31 We start by the first conveyance, the night coach, for London.
1830 B. Disraeli Home Lett. I. 2 The steam packet is a beastly conveyance.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 320 It must have been transferred to three distinct conveyances, including two railways.
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society > communication > [noun] > medium of
conveyance1548
internunce1674
canal1722
mulga wire1927
the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > conveying by a channel or medium > channel or medium of conveyance
carriera1398
conduct1423
conveyance1548
conduita1569
conduit-pipe1581
convoy1599
conveyor1621
conveyancer1624
convoyance1682
conductor1796
efferent1876
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xi There lacked only an orgaine and conueighance bothe how secretly to serche and knowe the myndes of the nobilitee.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 175 Shoulde serue as..conueyances of his body and bloud vnto them.
a1711 T. Ken Divine Love in Wks. (1838) 318 Thou..art the Author and Fountain of grace, and thou only hast the right of instituting the conveyances of thy own grace.
1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 11 And the Apostles to speak more authenticly in that Conveyance [Latin] than in their own Words.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §6. 21 Our Lord did not use His Apostles as mere mechanical conveyances of Truth.
Compounds
General attributive, as conveyance-stamp, conveyance-pipe (senses 7b, 8).
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1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. vii. 278 A conveyance stamp on a purchase of the value of 1000l.
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conveyancev.
Usually in past participle conˈveyanced adj. see quot., and cf. conveyance n. 12c.
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1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 73 The larger pipes do not suffer..from being brought forward, or conveyanced off, as the organ-builder terms it.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) v. 40 Pipes of metal, tin, or wood, called conveyances, which carry the wind from the sound-board to those pipes at a distance; and which are thus said to be ‘conveyanced off’.
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