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The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation. Virchow.

The act of hastening; haste. [Obs.] T. Adams.

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface. Cooke (1615).

A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

The act or process of puncturing. See Acupuncture.

A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a…

A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

opulation in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

Renewed consecration.

The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.

Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.

The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.

re substituted for the opposite motives in the heart. He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Chost. Tit. iii. 5.

The act of registering; registry; enrollment.

A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration.

The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

A recalling by the faculty of memory; remembrance. [Obs. & R.] Bp. Montagu.

Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.