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The act of captivating. [R.] The captivation of our understanding. Bp. Hall.

The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.

The act or process of carbonizing.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

The act, process, or result of carburizing.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

Having a flesh color.

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser.

The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright.

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

The act of annulling. A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

The act of making into a castle.

Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.

The act of castrating.

A vault under altar of a Greek church.

The act of catechising.

Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

The operation of introducing a catheter.