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The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.

The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.

The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.

The act or process of making vulgar, or common.

Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.

See Weasand. [Obs.]

See Weasand. [Obs.]

A wise man; a sage. [Obs.] See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet! Milton.

Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.

The character or practices o "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." J. A. Symonds.

us of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of North America, including only the species Xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic.

. The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the politicians by the surer mode of zigzag. Burke.

The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness. [R.] The . . . zigzaggery of my father's approaches. Sterne.

Having sharp turns. Barham.

A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice, under Rice.

kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

e expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.

A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

Acclimatization.

of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.