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A shining between or among. [R.] Smart.

Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified.

ment of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness. That secret intoxication of pleasure. Spectator.

Entanglement. [Obs.]

ior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being. Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and pathetical! Shak. The whole poem is a prayer to Fortune, and the invocation is divided between the two deities. Addison.

A merrymaking; noisy festivity. [Colloq.] We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.

owing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.…

The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.

A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.

The act or process of locating.

The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.

The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.

The act of deriding.

Gluttony; gormandizing. [Obs.]

The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] Bacon.

The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. [R.]

The act of chewing. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.

The act or process of medicating.