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Taxation :: Taxation (n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue..

Hymning :: Hymning (a.) Praising with hymns; singing.

Catadrome :: Catadrome (n.) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

Ballooning :: Ballooning (n.) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales..

Plyer :: Plyer (n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.

Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..

Appraising :: Appraising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apprais.

Heft :: Heft (v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising.

Raising :: Raising (n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life..

Nopalry :: Nopalry (n.) A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

Shadoof :: Shadoof (n.) A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Raising :: Raising (n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising..

Stumbled :: Stum (v. t.) To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation..

Coal Works :: Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal..

Collaud :: Collaud (v. t.) To join in praising.

Lift :: Lift (v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

Vesication :: Vesication (n.) The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters..

Fascine :: Fascine (n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc..

Napping :: Napping (n.) The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth..

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