Verb

(en verb)

To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.

* Shakespeare

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.

Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.

To communicate; to make known; to portray.

to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information

* John Locke

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.

(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).

He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.

* Spenser

The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.

(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

* Shakespeare

I will convey the business as I shall find means.

(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).

To expose, uncover.

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(chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

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(archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.

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*Shakespeare

*:Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover / The several caskets to this noble prince.

*Francis Bacon

*:Prosperity doth best discover' vice; but adversity doth best ' discover virtue.

(obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

*, Bk.V, ch.ix:

*:they seyde the same, and were aggreed that Sir Clegis, Sir Claryon, and Sir Clement the noble, that they sholde dyscover the woodys, bothe the dalys and the downys.

To find or learn something for the first time.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}

(obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

*C. J. Smith

*:The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

*1806 , Alexander Hunter, Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ , p.125:

*:The English Cooks keep all their Spices in separate boxes, but the French Cooks make a spicey mixture that does not discover a predominancy of any one of the spices over the others.