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The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. Weale.

The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. Thynne.

A civil office, or a civil process [Obs.] To serve in a civility. Latimer.

Rendering a criminal process civil. [Obs.]

The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.

A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works. Ure.

A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. Gray. Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.…

The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South.

e. Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally aboli…

The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

The art of process of making cloth. [R.] Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing. Ray.

A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

The act or process of coercing.

The process of cohobating. Grew.

The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

The act or process of straining or filtering. [R.]

The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. [R.]