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The making or production of honey.

The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy. Sir T. Browne.

The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.

Composition in metrical form; versification. [R.] Tennyson.

A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.

Wrong collocation. De Quincey.

Wrong explication.

being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.

The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening. Chaucer.

The act of biting or corroding; corrosion. [R.] Bacon.

ppetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body. The mortification of our lusts has something in it that is troublesome, yet nothing that is unreasonable. Tillotson.

f multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray.

The act of making a mummy.

The act or operation of cleansing.

es, mystify. The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. De Quincey.

The act or process of building a nest.

The act or process of making black. [R.] Johnson.

The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.

The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.

The act of making nude.