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or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

e of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion. A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition. Burke.

The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden.

Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms. Addison.

The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism.

The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused. Coleridge.

l; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.

The act of perfusing.

The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe.

Restoration. "This doctrine of the refusion of the soul." Bp. Warbuton.

or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. Ray.

or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk.

The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.…

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.