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Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier.

An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids.

A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation. The argument is about things, but names. Locke.

Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.

To express distinctly; to give utterance to. Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.

State of being aseptic; the methods or processes of asepticizing.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.

The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.