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The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.

The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne. The evocation of that better spirit. M. Arnold.

The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. Johnson.

The act of making blind. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

See Exsiccation. [Obs.]

The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.

t of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.

ich it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon.

The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison.

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.