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h necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.

which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

he court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree. Kent.

The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

The act or process of neologizing.

The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.

A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.

One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch.

The act or process of neutralizing, or the state of being neutralized.

The act or process of building a nest.

The art, process, or method of decorating metal with incised designs filled with the black alloy.

A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.

The act or process of making black. [R.] Johnson.

The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.

ore which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. -- Nose key (Carp.), a fox wedge. -- Nose leaf (Zoöl.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. -- Nose of wax, fig., a person who is pliant and e…

In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.

The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.

The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process. Odontoid bone (Anat.), a separate bone, in many reptiles, corresponding to the odontoid process. -- Odontoid process, or Odontoid peg (Anat.), the anterior process of the centrum of the second vertebra, or axis, in birds and mammals. See Axis.…