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The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. Glanvill.

The act or process of making fixed.

with a flange on one side, to keep wheels, etc. from running off. -- Flange turning, the process of forming a flange on a wrought iron plate by bending and hammering it wh

A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.

The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

The act, process, or state of floating.

ed; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

how indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

r extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed. And now at foot Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet. Milton.

Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.

The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. Shak. Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- c…

The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.

The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.

The process of becoming fossil.