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Word Meanings - FUMIGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors. 2. To smoke; to perfume. Dryden.

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  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • VAPORATE
    To emit vapor; to evaporate.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • VAPORY
    1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
  • VAPORIFORM
    Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • PERFUMER
    1. One who, oe that which, perfumes. 2. One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.
  • EXPOSE
    1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
  • VAPOR
    Any substance in the gaseous, or aƫriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not
  • VAPOROUS
    1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
  • SMOKEHOUSE
    A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
  • SMOKELESS POWDER
    A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
  • VAPORATION
    The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
  • VAPORIFIC
    Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
  • PERFUMERY
    The art of preparing perfumes. (more info) 1. Perfumes, in general. 2. Etym:
  • VAPORIFEROUS
    Conveying or producing vapor.
  • VAPORIMETER
    An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
  • SMOKESTACK
    A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
  • VAPORISH
    1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.
  • SMOKE BALL
    See PUFFBALL
  • EVAPORATION
    See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
  • EVAPORATOR
    An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
  • BESMOKE
    1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
  • EVAPOROMETER
    An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
  • REPURIFY
    To purify again.
  • EVAPORATIVE
    Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
  • AUTO-INFECTION
    Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.
  • REAPPLY
    To apply again.

 

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