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Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. B. G. Wilder.

Production of heat, esp. animal heat.

False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. The calumniation of her principal counselors. Bacon.

A vaulting or arching over. [R.]

he Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. Bladder campion, a plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. -- Rose campion, a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimsome crimson flowers.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.…

A singing. [Obs.] Blount.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

A song or verses. [Obs.] Spenser.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of capitalizing.

A numbering of heads or individuals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. [Obs.] Without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches. Eikon Basilike.

A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.] This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. Bacon.