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The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

ich constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

ow; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3.

The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

ing no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." Dryden. This woman was taken . . . in the very act. John viii. 4. Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith.…

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.…

ions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

face, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

A dependent; an accessory. Fuller.

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

ng, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.