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The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n.., 2.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.

The act or process of cementing.

Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.

A person or thing that cements.

Of the nature of cement. [R.] Forsyth.

ogression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and ha…

A reënforcement; a strengthening. Hallam.

r was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

ise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history."

Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. [R.] The fear of a convincement. Milton.

Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [R.] Dryden.

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. [Archaic] False is the reply of Cain, upon the denouncement of his curse. Sir T. Browne.

Diduction; separation into distinct parts. Bacon.

of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.