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The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.

Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.

One who, or that which, resuscitates.

Redness. [R.]

The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. Addison. The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. Sir W. Scot…

t or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous education. V. Knox.

Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.

The quality or state of being saponaceous.

tion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Colli…

The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Scitamimeæ), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.

A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype.

To energize or excite (the field magnets of a dynamo) by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.

Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness. Bacon.

uscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture. [Obs.] The siccity and dryness of its flesh. Sir T. Browne.

Silicified. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

See Scolecite.