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The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate. Water of hydration (Chem.), water chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.

Allurement. [R.] T. Brown.

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

ng; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton.

Want of moderation. Hallywell.

The state of being without perforation.

The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty. [Obs.] In way of impertation procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses. Barrow.

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of imploring; earnest supplication. Bp. Hall.

Want of preparation. [Obs.] Hooker.

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. [Obs.] Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne

Defilement; obscuration. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ing into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne.

The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.

The act of smearing or covering with wax. B. Jonson.

cinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation. The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. Skelton.

Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.