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A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer. A warrant for his execution. Shak.

Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.

The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.

A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. Putting it straight in expedition.

r to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. Sir J. Herschel.

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

ace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. -- Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. -- Fire master (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. -- Fire office, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. -- Fire opal, a variety of opal giving fire…

inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]

The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.

e part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. -- Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. -- Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into anoth…

The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.

The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.

The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.

usiness for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon. Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.…

The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. Sir M. Hale.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.