Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of thinning a wood to let in light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Act of thinning a wood to let in light.
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- noun obsolete The
thinning of awood to let inlight .
Etymologies
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Latin interlucatio.
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Examples
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But the _fungi_ (which prognosticate a fault in the liver and entrails of trees, as we may call it) is remedied by abrasion, friction, interlucation and exposure to the sun.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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