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Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon.

A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison.

ction of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

Meal-taking; dining or supping. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

f linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

The or process of denationalizing.

To divest or deprive of national character or rights. Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett. An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.

Denization; denizening. Abbott.

The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

Deoxidation. [R.]

Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined.

The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.

The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.