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Process \Proc"ess\, n. [F. proc[`e]s, L. processus. See
{Proceed}.]
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1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement;
procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time."
--Milton.
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The thoughts of men are widened with the process of
the suns. --Tennyson.
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2. A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive
act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual
course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process
of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process;
processes of nature.
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Tell her the process of Antonio's end. --Shak.
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3. A statement of events; a narrative. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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4. (Anat. & Zool.) Any marked prominence or projecting part,
especially of a bone; anapophysis.
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5. (Law) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or
personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end
of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the
defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic
term for writs of the class called judicial.
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{Deacon's process} [from H. Deacon, who introduced it]
(Chem.), a method of obtaining chlorine gas by passing
hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been
previously saturated with a solution of some metallic
salt, as sulphate of copper.
{Final process} (Practice), a writ of execution in an action
at law. --Burrill.
{In process}, in the condition of advance, accomplishment,
transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed.
{Jury process} (Law), the process by which a jury is summoned
in a cause, and by which their attendance is enforced.
--Burrill.
{Leblanc's process} (Chem.), the process of manufacturing
soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the
sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting
with charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to
sodium carbonate by roasting with lime.
{Mesne process}. See under {Mesne}.
{Process milling}, the process of high milling for grinding
flour. See under {Milling}.
{Reversible process} (Thermodynamics), any process consisting
of a cycle of operations such that the different
operations of the cycle can be performed in reverse order
with a reversal of their effects.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mesne \Mesne\, a. [Cf. {Mean} intermediate.] (Law)
Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who
holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another
person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but
lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called
the mesne lord.
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{Mesne process}, intermediate process; process intervening
between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes
understood to be the whole process preceding the
execution. --Blackstone. --Burrill.
{Mesne profits}, profits of premises during the time the
owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of
his estate. --Burrill.
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