Candidating: Definition and part of speech

Candidating

n. The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

v. i. The part thus suppressed.
v. i. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
v. i. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
v. i. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
v. i. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
v. i. To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
v. i. An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
v. i. The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

n. The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.

v. t. Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.
v. t. Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

n. The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
n. The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

v. t. The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.
v. t. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.