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To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.

The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.

The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming.

The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.

The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.

Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybr…

rosive gas, HCl, of pungent, suffocating odor. It is made in great quantities in the soda process, by the action of sulphuric acid on common salt. It has a great affinity for water, and the commercial article is a strong solution of the gas in water. It is a typical acid, and is an indispensable agent in commercial and…

A chemical process involving the addition of the elements of water.

The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.

A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as hæmal spines, and chevron bones. -- Hy`pa*po*phys"i*al, a.

A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra. -- Hy`per*ap`o*phys"i*al, a.

y emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.

The act or process of producing hypnotism.

A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.

A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process. -- Hy`po*tar"sal, a.

The act or process of idealizing.

ought. The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.