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latin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.

A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.

Having many teeth, or toothlike processes.

Having many fingers, or fingerlike processes.

The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray.

poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.

of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction. Bacon.

A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

Without a point or pointed process; blunt.

An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.

e that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.

The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. Nascent passions and anxieties. Berkley.

of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.

The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

ce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. I oft admire How Nature, wis…

the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally in the form of a vast, d…

The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.

The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy. Virchow.