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The act or the process of making electrotypes.

The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.

To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth.

The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure.

eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

raphy, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.

Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Shak. O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak.

The art or process of examining by means of the endoscope.

The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. Mozley & W.

A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.

rm of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.

The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

tween the mean and apparent places of the equinox. -- Equation of payments (Arith.), the process of finding the mean time of payment of several sums due at different times. -- Equation of time (Astron.), the difference between mean and apparent time, or between the time of day indicated by the sun, and that by a perf…