Word Meanings - INSOLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar. A sunstroke. Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath.

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• VINEGARY
  Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.
• VINEGAR FLY
  Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.
• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DRY-RUB
  To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• MATURITY
  1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. 2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note,
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• EXPOSTULATOR
  One who expostulates. Lamb.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• EXPOSTULATE
  To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
• 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
• MATURANT
  A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.
• MATURING
  Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• HEMATURIA
  Passage of urine mingled with blood.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• SUNDRY
  1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. "Sundry wines." Chaucer. "Sundry weighty reasons." Shak. With many a sound of sundry melody. Chaucer. Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden. 2. Separate; diverse. Every church almost had
• POLYANDRY
  The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with Ant: monandry. Note: In law, this falls under the head of polygamy.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.
• SMOULDRY
  See SMOLDRY
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• THAUMATURGICS
  Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.