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hich is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Frivolous or sophistical objection. [Obs.] Hooker.

l receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.

Distillation. [Obs.] An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices. Derham.

The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter.

A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

Comfort; support. [Obs.]

The of instilling; also, that which is instilled. Johnson.

The state of being, or the act of making, stony.

The act of uttering the sound of a mouillé letter.

A sealing up. [Obs.] Maunder.

change back and forth. His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme points of the oscillation were not very remote. Macaulay. Axis of oscillation, Center of oscillation. See under Axis, and Center.

The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

Restoration of strength by refreshment. [Obs.] Middleton.

A spark of flash emitted in scintillating. These scintillations are . . . the inflammable effluences discharged from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.