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The American white mullet (Mugil curema).

mber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field. Lizard fish (Zoöl.), a marine scopeloid fish of the genus Synodus, or Saurus, esp. S. foetens of the Southern United States and West Indies; -- called also sand pike. -- Lizard snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake (Eutænia sirtalis).…

d having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.

A making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

The madder of the Levant. Brande & C.

A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

To alkalizate. [R.] Johnson.

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

The act or process of capitalizing.

ed; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development. Dana.

Capable of being civilized.

zing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement. Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke…

The act of making conventional.