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The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.

One who classifies.

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

A class or order; sort; kind. [Obs.] His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.

A member of a class; a classmate.

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.

The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.

A corruption of Cutlass.

A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax. Cutlass fish, (Zoöl.), a peculiar, long, thin, marine fish (Trichirus lepturus) of the southern United States and West Indies; -- called also saber fish, silver eel, and, improperly, swordfish.

To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class. North Am. Rev.

An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

Fatigue. Able to continue without delassation. Ray.

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.

Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.

Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers who pay the highest regular rate; -- distinguished from a second-clas…

A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf…

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.