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Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. My word hath no place in you. John viii. 37.

(Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. -- Plum weevil (Zoöl.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in cresc…

condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him. Clarendon.

Easy; unobstructed. [Obs.] The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt. Sir H. Wotton.

A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter." Shak.

The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness.

recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.

An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, faschionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat. The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls. Macaulay.…

To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine. T. Burnet. (h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for…

The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed. Knight.

A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew. Spenser.

A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.

A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable. [Colloq. U. S.]

The parlor or reception room of a convent. [Obs.]

n of a ship as freight. [Eng.] -- Stamp office, an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties.

The act of taking; reception.

To please; to gain reception; to succeed. Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if the thing should take. Addison.

A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. "In tomb of marble stones." Chaucer.