convey
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Is convey a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.Examples: "Convey me to my bed, then to my grave: Love they to live that love and honour have."; "[…] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid, And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;"; "It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance […]"dated
2. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).Examples: "He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter."; "[…] before his breaking forth into open rebellion, [the Earle of Desmond] had conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees of trust, in hope to have cut off her Maiestie from the escheate of his lands."
3. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.Examples: "1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson, I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]"; "I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal."obsolete
4. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.Examples: "Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary