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loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.

The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.

The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation Milton.

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

, royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of dissolving gold, the "royal" metal. -- Aqua Tofana, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is…

d, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks. Dana.

The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids.

A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation. The argument is about things, but names. Locke.

Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

To proceed; to issue; to spring. Whence haply mention may arise Of something not unseasonable to ask. Milton.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.