Search the Dictionary

A rendering null or void.

Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.

ark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise. Abp. Thomson.

e scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.

Not yielding. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. E. Darwin.

for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. W. H. Wollaston.

The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qipod, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine. I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters. Is. xiv. 23 (Douay version).

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

Rendering thanks for favors.

The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.

break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

The act or process of rendering fertile.

immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.

The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

ing glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

r. See under Solder. -- Hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral substance rendering it unfit for washing. See Hardness, 3.- Hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.- In hard condition, in excellent condition for r…