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Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. [Obs.] A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

Protuberance. [Obs.] Farindon.

Ulceration. Quincy.

The act of rising or coming into view. [Obs.] Baxter.

The act of uniting in a league; confederation.

The act of fenerating; interest. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. Bacon.

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.

A conflagration. [Obs.]

The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]

The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.] Richardson.

The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.

ion by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.

ed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution. The gyrations of an ascending balloon. De Quincey. If a burning coal be nimbly moved round in a circle, with gyrations continually repeated, the whole circle will appear like fire. Sir I. Newton.