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The act of perflating. [Obs.] Woodward.

Careful watching. [Obs.]

The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

A walking or going before; precedence. [R.]

The setting of one above another; preference. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation. [Obs.] Ray.

A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More.

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.

A new compilation.

Restoration of strength by refreshment. [Obs.] Middleton.

The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.

The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay.

r telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon.

Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke.

A relative; a relation. [Obs.]