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Conveyance. Not in ufe. 
Sifter, as the winds give benefit. 
And convoy is afliftant, do not deep, 
But let me hear from you. Skakefpeare. 
CO'NUS, or Volutes, f . Linnaeus’s third genera of 
turbinated univalves. See Concholocv. 
CO'NUSANCE,/! [ connoijfancc , Fr,] Cognizance; no¬ 
tice ; knowledge. A law term, 
CO'NUS ANT, part. adj. Knowing, urtderftanding, or 
being privy to. . 
To CONVUL'SE, v. a. \_convulfus, Lat.] To give an 
irregular and involuntary motion to the parts of any body: 
Follows the loofen’d, aggravated roar, 
Enlarging, deepening, mingling peal on peal, 
Crufh'd horrible, convvlfng heaven and earth. Thomfon. 
CONVUL'SION.yi [ convulfo , Lat.] A convulfon is an 
involuntary contraction of the fibres and mufcles, where¬ 
by the body and limbs are preternaturaliy diftorted. 
Quincy. —If my hand be put into motion by a convujion, 
the indifferency of that operative faculty is taken away. 
Locke _Any irregular and violent motion; tumult; com¬ 
motion; difturbance.—All have been fubjedt to home 
concullions, and fall under the fame convulfions of ftate, 
by dilfenfions or invafions. Temple. 
CONVUL'SIVE, adj. [convuljij, Fr.] That which pro¬ 
duces involuntary motion ; that which gives twitches or 
.lpafms.—They are irregular and convulfivc motions, or 
llrugglings of the fpirits. Hale. 
Shew me the flying foul’s convuljive ftrife, 
And all the anguifh of departing life. Drydcn. 
CON'WAY, a town of the American States, in 
the province of New Brunfwick, Sudbury county, on the 
weftern bank of St. John’s river. It has the bay of Fitndy 
on the fouth, and at the wefternmoft point there is a pret¬ 
ty good harbour called Mujquafh Cove. 
CON'WAY, a town of the American States, in the 
north-eaft corner of Stafford county, New Hampfhire, on 
a bend in Saco river, incorporated in t.765, and contains 
574 inhabitants. It was called Pigzoacket by the Indians. 
CON'WAY, a thriving town of the American States, 
in Hampfhire county, Maflachufetts, incorporated in 1767, 
and contains 2092 inhabitants : thirteen miles north-weft 
of Northampton, and 115 north-weft.by weft of Bofton. 
CON'WAY, a river of North Wales, which rifes from 
a lake, fituated where the three counties of Caernarvon, 
Denbigh, and Merioneth, meet: twelve miles north of 
Dolgelly ; and, after dividing the county of Denbigh 
from that of Caernarvon, falls into the Irifh fea, at 
Aberconway. 
CON'WAY. See Aberconway. 
CO'NY, f. \_kanin, Germ, connil, or connin, Fr. cunicu- 
lus, Lat.] A rabbit; an animal that burroughs in the 
ground!—The hulbandman fuffers by hares and conys, 
which eat the corn and trees. Mortimer. 
CONYA', a river in Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, fouth 
of America. 
CO'NYBEARE (John), a learned divine of the church 
of England, born at Pinhoe, near Exeter, on the 31ft of 
January, 1692. His father was vicar of Pinhoe, who 
died when his fon was only in the fifteenth year of his 
age. On tire 23d of February, 170S, Mr. Conybeare 
was admitted a bachelor of Exeter college, Oxford, un¬ 
der the tuition of Mr. Thomas Kennel, afterwards Dr. 
Kennel; and was chofen, June 30, 1710, a probationary 
fellow of his college. On the 17th of July, 1713, he was 
admitted to the degree of bachelor of arts ; and, at the 
next eledtion of college offices, he was appointed prae- 
lector, or moderator, in phiiofophy. On the 16th of 
April, 1716, he proceeded to the degree of mafter -of 
arts. His reputation foon recommended him to,the no¬ 
tice of Dr. Gibfon, biihop of London, who appointed 
him one of the king’s preachers at Whitehall, upon the 
firft founding of that inftitution. In May, 1724, the lord 
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chancellor Macclesfield prefented him to the rectory of 
St. Clement’s in Oxford. In 1725, he was chofen fenior 
proctor of the univerfity. On the nth of July, 172S, 
Mr. Conybeare was admitted to the degree of bachelor 
of divinity ; and, on the 24th of January following, he 
took his doctor’s degree. "In 1730, the headfhip of Exe¬ 
ter college becoming vacant, by the death of Dr. Hole, 
Dr. Conybeare was chofen to fucceed him. In this year 
Dr. Tindal’s famous book had appeared, intitled, Chrif- 
tianity as old as the Creation. . Bifhop Gibfon encou¬ 
raged Dr. Conybeare to undertake the talk of giving an 
anfwer to Tindal’s production. Accordingly he pub- 
lifhed, in 1732, his Defence of revealed Religion, by 
which he performed eminent fervice to the church. On 
the death of Dr. Bradthaw, bifliop of Briftol, and dean 
of Chrift-church, Oxford, in December, 1732, Dr. Co¬ 
nybeare was appointed to fucceed him in the latter dig¬ 
nity. On the 6th of June, 1733, dean Conybeare mar¬ 
ried Mifs Jemima Juckes, of Hoxton-fquare, near Lon¬ 
don ; and, in the beginning of the next year, he enter¬ 
tained the prince of Orange at the deanery of Chrift- 
church, for which he had the thanks of queen Caroline. 
In 1750, he attained the mitre ; on the tranflation of Dr. 
Jofeph Butler to the fee of Durham, Dr. Conybeare was 
appointed to the bifliopric of Briftol, on the 23d of De¬ 
cember. - He did not long enjoy a good ftate of health, 
after his being railed to the bilhopric, being much afflifted 
with the gout; and, having languithed about a year and 
a half, was carried off by that diforder, at Bath, on the 
13th of July, 1755. He was interred in the cathedral 
church of Briftol 
CC'NY-BOROUGH,yi A place where rabbits make 
their holes in the ground.—Commoners cannot lawfully 
dig up cony-boroughs in the common. 2 Wills. 51. 
To CO'NYCATCH, v. n. To catch a cony, is, in the 
old cant of thieves, to cheat; to bite ; to trick.—I have 
matter in my head againft you, and againft your ccny - 
catching rafcals. Skakefpeare. 
CO'NYC ATCHER,y! A thief; a cheat; a/harper; 
a tricking fellow. JohnJ'on. 
CO'NYCATCHING, f. A cant word formerly for 
banter..—Come, you are all fo full of conycatching. Shakcf 
CONY'ZA,/! [Either from y.uvu^, a gnat, beqaufe 
it catches fmall infects by its glutinous juice; or mrapx 
to xon^em, from its being covered by a dufty pubefcence ; 
or ©-apa to tov y.wa. o£eu, from fmelling like a dog. Ray „ 
From yirjgu, fcables , the itch. Vaill.~\ Fleabane ; in bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs fyngenefia, order polygamia 
fuperflua, natural order compofitae difcoideae. The ge¬ 
neric charadters are—Calyx : common imbricate, round- 
ifti, fquarrole ; fcales acute, the outer fomewhat fpread- 
ing. Corolla: compound tubulofe ; corollets herma¬ 
phrodite numerous, tubular in the difk ; females apeta- 
lous, roundith in the circuit; proper, of the herma¬ 
phrodite funnel-form; border five-cleft, patulous: of 
the females fennel-form; border three-cleft. Stamina: 
in the hermaphrodites, filaments five, capillary, very 
fhort; anther cylindric, tubular. Piftillum: in the 
hermaphrodites, germ oblong; ftyle filiform, length 
of the llamens; ftigma two-cleft: in the females, germ 
oblong; ftyle filiform, length of the hermaphrodite, 
more (lender; ftigmas two, very (lender. Pericarpi- 
um: none; calyx converging. Seeds to the herma¬ 
phrodites, folitary, oblong, down fimple ; to the females, 
folitary, oblong; down fimple. Receptaculum : naked, 
fiat. EJfential Character.- —Calyx : imbricate, roundifti ; 
corolla of the ray three-cleft; down fimple ; receptacu¬ 
lum naked. 
Species. 1. Conyza fquarrofa, or great fleabane, or 
plowman’s fpikenard : leaves lanceolate, acute ; Item 
herbaceous, corymbed; calyxes lquarrofe.. Root bien¬ 
nial ; (terns a foot in height, upright, panicled at the 
end, purpliih with a white woollinefs; branches ftraight; 
leaves ovate-oblong, terminating in petioles, wrinkled, 
ferrate, (preading, bowed back; flowers terminating, 
ftraight. 
