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To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.

Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.

The process of engraving dies.

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as the…

Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.

The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. To do one's diligence, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor. And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the fes…

A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve. [Written also deluing.]

The act or process of immersing.

on of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at. -- Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. Knight. -- Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or customs, and fr…

mpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism. The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.

Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation. Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells. McKendrick.

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

, great sums were to be borrowed. Milton. Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process. Transl. of Lavoisier.

The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.

The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell.

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically

The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.