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come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

A salt of cyanic acid. Ammonium cyanate (Chem.), a remarkable white crystalline substance, NH4.O.CN, which passes, on standing, to the organic compound, urea, CO.(NH)2.

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

Doo "Damnatory invectives." Hallam.

Having the point or top cut off. [Obs.] Bailey.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.

The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.

Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. Blackstone. Declinatory plea (O. Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.

The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.

The office of a decurion.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.

The act of ungluing.

To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.

The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.