Obs. [f. CONVOY v. + -ANCE.]
1. Artful management; cunning device; = CONVEYANCE 11.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. v. (1632), 499. Their wiles, sleights, close convoyances.
1637. Gillespie, Eng. Pop. Cerem., Ep. B iv b. The cunning convoyance of that old Serpent.
1643. R. Baillie, Lett. & Jrnls. (1841), II. 108. It was the canny convoyance of those who guides most matters to their own interest.
2. CONVEYANCE.
1637. Gillespie, Eng. Pop. Cerem., III. iv. 53. The adoration … must first be carried to the Signe as a meanes of convoyance vnto Christ.
3. The channel by which anything is conveyed.
1603. Daniel, Commend. Verses, in Florio’s Montaigne. As a guest in gratefulnesse … [he] Might spare to tax th’ unapt convoyances.
