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An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.

Failure to mortify the passions. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

d. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle.

r calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley.

Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions. Bp. Hall.

alty; reimbursement of loss, damage, or penalty; the state of being indemnified. Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard. Burke.

mptom; evidence. The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. Addison.

The act of baiting; allurement. [Obs.] Hallywell.

The act of painting or staining, especially of painting the face.

A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching. Craig.

The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity. Johnson.

The act or process of drying in.

stening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [Obs.] Coxe. The medicating and insuccation of seeds. Evelyn.

The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

Mutual communication. Owen.

A placing or coming between; interposition.

Act of thinning a wood to let in light. [Obs.] Evelyn.