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Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

In a becoming manner.

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.

Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

Becoming fatty.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

The act of becoming white; whitishness.

Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

Growing or becoming white.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.