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Habiliment. [Obs.]

Capable of being acclimated.

Acclimatization.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

Acclimation. [R.]

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Capable of being acclimatized.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.

See Alkalimeter.

natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.