v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conveyed p. pr. & vb. n. Conveying. ] [ OF. conveir, convoier, to escort, convoy, F. convoyer, LL. conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. Convoy. ] 1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will convey them by sea in floats. 1 Kings v. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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, air conveys sound; words convey ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To manage with privacy; to carry out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To accompany; to convoy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer.

Syn. -- To carry; transport; bear; transmit; transfer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play the thief; to steal. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of transferring a property title from one person to another.
Syn. -- conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Mach.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]