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To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

ing other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

To render insensible by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit.

as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.

to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

Monition; warning. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

eat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

To render account to or for. I will . . . send him to answer thee. Shak.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.

Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.