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A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. [Obs.] Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.

Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton.

Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.] Chaucer.

Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas. [Obs.]

The act of herborizing.

The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.

A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah. They made a great huzza or shout. Evelyn.

ing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids. J. D. Hooker.

The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.

The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

The act or process of producing hypnotism.

The act or process of idealizing.

The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. [R.] Cotgrave.

The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

Not cognizable; incapable of being recognized, known, or distinguished. H. Spenser. The Lettish race, not a primitive stock of the Slavi, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable. Tooke.

Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice. This incognizance may be explained. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not cognizant; failing to apprehended or notice. Of the several operations themselves, as acts of volition, we are wholly incognizant. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.

The act of naturalizing; endenization. [R.] Evelyn.