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The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. After donation there an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. South.

A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded. [Obs.]

Effeminacy; womanishness. [Obs.] Bacon.

Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.)

ng or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.

The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

The ninth segment in insects.

The act of unsheathing.

Removal of the kernel.

A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations. Macaulay. Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witnes…

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.] Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.

or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

The act of taking by assault; conquest. [R.] Sandys.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

. . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.

The soldering ir uniting of me [R.] Coleridge.