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The act of making foul; pollution. [Obs.]

Making defense.

Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc. A man of great defense. Spenser. By how much defense is better than no skill. Shak.

finition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition. Definition being nothing but making another understand by words what the term defined stands for. Locke.

The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

The act of making heavy. [Obs.] Bailey.

Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. "A deifical communion." Homilies.

on or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball. Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. Sidney. An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.

Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak.

The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.

Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker.

Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. A cat lay, and looked so demure, as if there had been neither life nor soul in her. L'Estrange. Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.

The act of making black. Boyle.

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.

The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

Act of taking up plants from beds.

The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.