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.