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into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc. I look upon your city as the best place of improvement. South. Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. Blair.…

s for recovering or reducing to possession or enjoyment a specific object, as in the enforcement of maritime liens against a vessel, which is made the defendant by a sort of personification. Most actions for the specific recovery of property in English and American law are in the nature of actions in personam against a…

Beginning; commencement; initiation. Bacon. Marked with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay. Rawle.

Act of beginning; commencement; inception. The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale. It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. I. Taylor.

Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.

und to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. R. P. Ward.

The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement. I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance. Beau. & Fl. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction dull of prosperous hope. Shak.…

Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

An instrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- called also refractometer.

Announcement; declaration. Macaulay. They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland.

To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction. South.

Allurement; enticement. [R.] She gives the leer of invitation. Shak.

pace between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.

t of 365 days, each fourth year having 366 days. -- Julian epoch, the epoch of the commencement of the Julian calendar, or 46 b. c. -- Julian period, a chronological period of 7,980 years, combining the solar, lunar, and indiction cycles (28 x 19 x 15 = 7,980), being reckoned from the year 4713 B. C., when the first…

e obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.

Portland cement when thrown or blown into the recesses of carved stonework to intensify the shadows.

impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.