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The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.

The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.

Capable of being converted into a vitriol.

The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

Capable of being volatilized.

The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.

Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.

t kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.

iently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

od by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

t (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.