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A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

ten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

ion, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. G. Francis.

The process of bituminizing. Mantell.

The act or process of making black.

To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." Croly.

The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson.

The art, process, or business of binding books.