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The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.…

A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

The act or process of capitalizing.

Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vetebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.

The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. [R.] Bouvier.

n the laboratory. The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process. I. Remsen -Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide. (Chem.) See under Carbonic. -- Carbon light (Elec.), an extremely brilliant electric light produced by passing a galvanic current through two carbon points kept constantly with…

The act or process of carbonizing.

The act, process, or result of carburizing.

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., bycarding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.

Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright.

To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure.

esembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. Caseous degeneration, a morbid process, in scrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

The act or process of making cast or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.

A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is appare…

A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.