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The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

g of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.

The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.

dsworth. Destructive distillation. See Distillation. -- Destructive sorties ( (Logic), a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. Whately.

The act or process of depriving of sulphur.

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensify, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.

A wearing off or away. Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

ion of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind. The sound developed itself into a real…

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new developmen…

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.

The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.

The act or process of devolving;; devolution.

To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.

Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc.

The act or process of dialysis.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.