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Excessive or extraordinary gain. [Obs.] Davenant.

The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.

The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.

The matter produced by suppuration; pus.

The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh. Windy suspiration of forced breath. Shak.

A whispering; a soft murmur. "Soft susurrations of the trees." Howell.

Temerity. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of terebrating, or boring. [R.] Bacon.

The act or process of titrating; a substance obtained by titrating.

The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

See Perkinism.

A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

The act of passing from one country to another; migration.

por; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration. Cudworth.

The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc. Paley.

The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.

Unregeneracy.

The quality or state of being unsaturated.

The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation. [R.]