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The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.

Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.

Distempered state; distemperature. [Obs.] Feltham.

The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

Hindrance; molestation.[Obs.] Spenser.

Encumbrance. [R.]

Hazard; peril. Milton.

To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red. [Obs.] Milton.

Epidermal. [R.]

o, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.] Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain. Spenser.

That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

Capability of fermentation.

Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.

Fermentative. [Obs.]

Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.

which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process. -- Fer*ment"a*tive*ly, adv. -- Fer*ment"a*tive*ness, n.