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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONVEYANCE, n.
1. The act of conveying; the act of bearing, carrying, or transporting, by land or water, or through any medium.
2. The act of transmitting, or transferring, as titles, estates or claims from one person to another; transmission; transference; assignment.
3. The instrument or means of passing a thing from place to place, or person to person; as, a vehicle is a conveyance for persons or goods; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water; a deed is a conveyance of land.
4. Removal; the act of removing or carrying.
5. Management; artifice; secret practices. [In this sense, obsolete.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: document effecting a property transfer
2: the transmission of information [syn: conveyance, imparting, impartation]
3: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance, transport]
4: act of transferring property title from one person to another [syn: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying]
5: the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the action of conveying 2. a means or way of conveying: as a. an instrument by which title to property is conveyed b. a means of transport ; vehicle

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the act or process of carrying. b the communication (of ideas etc.). c transmission. 2 a means of transport; a vehicle. 3 Law a the transfer of property from one owner to another. b a document effecting this. Derivatives: conveyancer n. (in sense 3). conveyancing n. (in sense 3).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conveyance Con*vey"ance, n. 1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. The long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyamce. --Prescott. Following th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. --Sir W. Raleigh. 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. There pipes and these conveyances of our blood. --Shak. 3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. --Stillingfleet. 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. [He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. --Clarendon. 5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [Obs.] the very jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. --Hakewill.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(conveyances) 1. A conveyance is a vehicle. (LITERARY) Mahoney had never seen such a conveyance before. = vehicle N-COUNT 2. The conveyance of something is the process of carrying or transporting it from one place to another. (FORMAL) ...the conveyance of bicycles on Regional Railways trains. = transport N-UNCOUNT: with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Transfer, demise, alienation, cession, transferrence. 2. Transfer, conveying, carrying, carriage, transmission. 3. Carriage, vehicle.

Moby Thesaurus

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