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The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast. A. Chalmers.

A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.

A vat for fermenting liquors.

Made hollow; bent round or in.

Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression.

Set; fast; fixed. Dr. John Smith.

Uncultivated. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Want of cultivation. [Obs.] Berington.

Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.

The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham.

Undepraved. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

The act of innerving or stimulating.

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. [Archaic]

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc. Dryden.

One who favors innovation.

Characterized by, or introducing, innovations. Fitzed. Hall.

One who innovates. Shak.