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The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.

The act of indicating by signs; a slight indication. [R.] "The subindication and shadowing of heavenly things." Barrow.

The act of making sublime, or state of being made sublime.

The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

A channel or furrow.

The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.

The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275.

Same as Syllabication. Rush. Syllabification depends not on mere force, but on discontinuity of force. H. Sweet.

Act or process of syndicating or forming a syndicate.

The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.

The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense.

Poisoning.

ne place to another; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.

being transmogrified; transformation. [Colloq.] Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. Glanvill.

The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] Glanvill.

light, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.