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to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle. Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.

The process of becoming fossil.

Friction. [Obs.] Bacon.

act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

A branching like a. fork.

A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] Blount.

The act or process of converting into gas.

The formation of gelatin.

The production of a bud or gem.

The act or process of generalizing. Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification. Sir W. Hamilton.

The state of being glorifed; as, the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.

A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

The act or the process of forming into granite. Humble.

t of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.

The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.

See Haruspicy. Tylor.

The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical. London Times.

That which causes horror. [R.] Miss Edgeworth.

n re. Pothier. B. R. Curtis. There are but few cases, if any, in our law, where an hypothecation, in the strict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee. Story.

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.