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Stimulation. [Obs.] Things insipid, and without any extimulation. Bacon.

The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

Comfort; support. [Obs.]

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

Ropedancing.

The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

See Gemmation.

The act of kneeling. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.

The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. Martyn. Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles. J. Lee.

The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.

The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.

The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation. I shall turn my wishes into gratulations. South.

An appearance as of a halo of light, surround the edges of dark object

Prognostication; soothsaying. [Obs.] Cockeram.