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A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

The art or science of flying.

Vision. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

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

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

A baboon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

Voting by ballot. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

The act of bathing. [R.]

The act of imparting balsamic properties.

A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

The act of expulsion.[Obs.] Abp. Laud.

Baptism. [Obs.] Their baptizations were null. Jer. Taylor.

The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank…

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. "The whole battalion views." Milton.

has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor.

A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:…