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The act of lustrating or purifying. And holy water for lustration bring. Dryden.

The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.] Richardson.

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

The act of viewing all over. [Archaic] Howell.

adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

s to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion. Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events. I. Taylor.

ing dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

pterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

rge and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

ich is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.