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The process, or result, of baking.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc.]

The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

The art or process of embalming.

The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.

of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

The art or process of making barometrical measurements.

A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

Steel produced by the basic process.

An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]

Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor…

To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.

The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.