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The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden.

To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.

The act or process of generating or bearing.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. Shak.

The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.

ffering in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.

Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.

he appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

The act or process of producing buds.