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The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin.

Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]

Of or pertaining to kenogenesis; as, kenogenetic processes. -- Ken`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

To treat by, or subject to, the Krupp process.

A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process.

The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillæ of insects.

A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.

The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.

The act or process of shaping on a last.

The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.

The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.

The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.

of the cherry laurel, and containing prussic acid and other products carried over in the process. American laurel, or Mountain laurel, Kalmia latifolia. See under Mountain. -- California laurel, Umbellularia Californica. -- Cherry laurel (in England called laurel). See under Cherry. -- Great laurel, the rosebay (Rh…

nt of supernatural revelation or of municipal and social usages. -- Law of the land, due process of law; the general law of the land. -- Laws of honor. See under Honor. -- Laws of motion (Physics), three laws defined by Sir Isaac Newton:

The act or process of making buoyant.

The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.