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d by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

Upholding; defense; vindication. [Obs.] Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.

Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. A fair balance of the advantages on either side. Atterbury.

a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

Such as can be balanced.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

One who balances, or uses a balance.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

By chance; by accident. [Obs.] Grafton.

Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Brilliancy. Tennyson.

Buoyancy. [R.]

close or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

t; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

the stoop. [Obs.] The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

Cancellarean. [R.]

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.

Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.