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Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon.

d being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

Paronomasia; punning.

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

An antivaccinist.

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

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.

A humming or buzzing.

of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

Having a flesh color.

tion of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

Meal-taking; dining or supping. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

A circle; a concentric layer. [Obs.] "The circinations and spherical rounds of onions." Sir T. Browne.