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The act of lying down; a reclining. [Obs.]

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

Act of lying down; decumbence. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or practice of lying on the ground. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)

Recumbence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture. [Obs.] Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations. Sir T. Browne.

To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. Paley. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11. For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen…

Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation.

Serving for incubation.

Incubation. [Obs.] J. Ellis.

Incubation. [R.] Sterne.

The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

l, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.