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By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.

Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n.

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.

Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [R.]

An experimenter. [R.]

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.

An experimenter.

The act of exploring; exploration. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

eing extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

Praise. [Obs.] Shak.

State of being famished.

Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.]

That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

Capability of fermentation.

Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.

Fermentative. [Obs.]

em.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.

ich likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process. -- Fer*ment"a*tive*ly, adv. -- Fer*ment"a*tive*ness, n.