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The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

l auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

The process of making, or of becoming malt.

The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. Tomlinson.

A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.

A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.

A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through it a blast of air, to oxidize and remove sulphur. It is analogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manhès, a French metallurgist, who invented it.

"The manifold grace of God." 1 Pet. iv. 10. Manifold writing, a process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred.

manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.

The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art. Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind. Whewell.

A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.

The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.

The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered. He could attain to a mastery in all languages. Tillotson. The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. Locke.

for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.

The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house (Naut.), a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging the water, used for stepping and unstepping the masts of vessels.…

Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.

Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.