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The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.

The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.

To salute with declaration of joy; to congratulate. [R.] Shak.

The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation. I shall turn my wishes into gratulations. South.

Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory. The usual groundwork of such gratulatory odes. Bp. Horsley.

The adoration or worship of woman. The sentimental gyneolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin- deep. Lowell.

Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes. Ld. Lytton.

The invocation or worship of saints.

An appearance as of a halo of light, surround the edges of dark object

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped. Gray.

Prognostication; soothsaying. [Obs.] Cockeram.

An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.

One of the Haustellata.

A worshiper of the sun.

Sun worship. See Sabianism.

The worship of saints or sacred things. [R.] Coleridge.

A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.

Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. Layard.

One who worships images.

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.