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A prop or shore. [Scot.]

Becoming rancid or sour.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

Admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.

Allurement. [R.]

pearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

ire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence. Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.

Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance.

Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance…

See Commorancy.

Act of considering; consideration. [Obs.] Shak.

Encumbrance. [Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.

livering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

Demonstration; proof. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.

Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

The act of disserving; separation.