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The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.

The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.

twork; an organization resembling a net. The particular net you occupy in the great reticulation. Carlyle.

Copulation from behind. Sir T. Browne.

That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words. Eph. iii. 3.

A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.

A spark of flash emitted in scintillating. These scintillations are . . . the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.

Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires. Addison.

Accusation of one's self. [R.] Milman.

Gratulation of one's self.

The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright.

Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson.

ng, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.

The act of walking in sleep.

Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination. Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts. Milton.

The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.

The act of stabling or housing beasts.