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The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aëriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]

ood yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. To prepare us…

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor.

Act or process of egesting; a voiding. Sir M. Hale.

The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.

The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.

Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

The art or process of making electrographs or using an electrograph.

The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.

The act or the process of electrolyzing.

The art or process of making electrical measurements.

The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.

To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.