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Silicification.

Of considerable size or bulk. "A sizable volume." Bp. Hurd.

ving passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.

The position or standing of a sizar.

Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. [R.] Bp. Burnet.

The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.

The act of sol-faing. [Written also solmisation.]

The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.

The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.

A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.

like or unlike, in measure. Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

The act of stigmatizing.

Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.

An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. [Cambridge Univ. Eng.] Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher.

The act of making subtile.

A reasoning by syllogisms. [Obs. or R.] Harris.