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The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. Goldsmith.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.

See Byzantine.

Of or pertaining to Byzantium. -- n.

A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

e catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.

The act or process of capitalizing.

The act or process of carbonizing.

The act, process, or result of carburizing.

The operation of introducing a catheter.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development. Dana.

The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.

Of or pertaining to the chalaza.

The act or process of characterizing.

The process of becoming chitinous.