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One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

The process of becoming chitinous.

The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.

choroid coat of the eye. See Eye. Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.

The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.

The process by which such picture is made.

s and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

A picture made by any of the processes for reproducing photographs in colors. --Chro`mo*pho`to*graph"ic (#), a.

A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucilbe with fresh material. B. Jonson.

The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.

The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.

Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.

the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic. "T was certain he could write and cipher too. Goldsmith.

The act or process of carrying about. [Obs.] Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.