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The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

Transformation; change of shape.

The act of giving shape or form. [Obs.] Ray.

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. South.

Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

Malconformation.

See Malformation.

Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

Malformation.

Untrue or incorrect information. Bacon.

An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.

The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.

r; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire lashes vice into reformation. Dryden.

The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --(a) (Biol.)

Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

ue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

Obtainable; to be got at. The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay.

e process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.