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A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

ering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] Blount.

ded or pressed together; condensation. [Obs.] Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles. Boyle.

external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

A making foul. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Exculpation. Burke.

The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]

dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.

An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.

s; excuse. These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey.

or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.

Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.

Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers. Bacon.

A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] Hammond.

Blame; censure; crimination. Jefferson.

Want of occupation.

Slavery; involuntary servitude. [Obs.] Johnson.