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Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

esemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

Assimilation. [Obs.] Bacon.

Stipulation; agreement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.

ct or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle.

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

The act of making into a castle.

Frivolous or sophistical objection. [Obs.] Hooker.

rse which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

The act of flying round. [R.]

Corresponding relation.

tate, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.