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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.]

The act of taming. [Obs.] Ray.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

The act ofworking together; united labor.

being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.

The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event. This sacrament was designed to be a standing commemoration of the death and passion of our Lord. Abp. Tillotson. The commonwealth which . . . chooses the most flagrant act of murderous regicide treason for a fea…