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A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison.

Division into areolæ. Dana.

A coating or overlaying with silver. [R.] Johnson.

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every…

Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] Bacon.

A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constant…

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

The act of taking away. [Obs.] "This arreption was sudden." Bp. Hall.

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

Adoption of a person of full age.

A gnawing. [Obs.] Bailey.

An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.

e through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.

Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six…

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.