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The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.

nciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]

sseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] Bacon.

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]

The practice of augury.

Blattering.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

Act of kicking.

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.

A vaulting or arching over. [R.]

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

The act of castrating.

The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.

Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.

The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]