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The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]

The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship. [Obs.] Blount.

To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.

A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.

A division of boring Hymenoptera, including Tremex and allied genera. See Illust. of Horntail.

is or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates. [Written also urocord.]

Same as Tunicata.

Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.

A yellow urinary pigment, considered by Thudichum as the only pigment present in normal urine. It is regarded by Maly as identical with urobilin.

See Aurochs.

See Urochord.

The urinary bladder.

The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.

The common sandpiper.

A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.

A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.

A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.

In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a…

-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

lea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.