Vapour
[veipә]
Definition
n. the gas into which most liquids and solids are convertible by heat: the condition of a body when it becomes gas by heat: water in the atmosphere: anything vain or transitory: (pl.) a disease of nervous weakness in which a variety of strange images float before the mind temporary depression of spirits dejection.—v.i. to pass off in vapour: to evaporate: to boast: to brag.—v.t. to make to pass into vapour: to cause to dissolve into gas thin air or other unsubstantial thing: (rare) to depress dispirit: (obs.) to bully.—adjs. Vā′porable Vā′porisable capable of being converted into vapour.—n. Vaporā′rium a Russian bath.—adjs. Vaporif′erous producing vapour; Vaporif′ic converting into steam or other vapour; Vā′poriform existing in the form of vapour.—n. Vaporisā′tion.—v.t. Vā′porise to convert into vapour.—v.i. to pass off in vapour.—adj. Vā′porish full of vapours: hypochondriacal: peevish.—n. Vaporom′eter an instrument for measuring the pressure of a vapour.—adjs. Vā′porous Vā′porose full of or like vapour: vain: affected with the vapours: unsubstantial vainly imaginative.—adv. Vā′porously.—ns. Vā′porousness Vaporos′ity; Vā′pour-bath an apparatus for bathing the body in vapour of water.—adj. Vā′poured full of vapours: affected with the vapours.—ns. Vā′pourer one who vapours a boaster; Vā′pouring windy or ostentatious talk.—adv. Vā′pouringly.—adj. Vā′poury full of vapour: affected with the vapours: peevish.
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Examples
- For example, the pictograph for mouth combined with pictograph for vapour expressed words. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Markest thou the smouldering and suffocating vapour which already eddies in sable folds through the chamber? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Oil, Vapour, and Gas Stoves, their Construction and Operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the midst of blaze and vapour, Mr. Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- These vapour engines are used for vapour launches, bicycles and automobiles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale-blue glare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is called olefiant gas, and contains equal measures of hydrogen gas and carbon vapour; its specific gravity is 0. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They are known as electric, lead, mercury, plate, vacuum, vapour, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I have got so mixed up with business of one sort and t'other that my soft sentiments are gone off in vapour like. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To bring out the image thus invisibly impressed, the plate was exposed to the vapour of mercury, in a closed box. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Therefore these vapours of the sun which were rendered in black lines were so produced by crossing terrestrial vapors of the same nature. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Vapours from other continents arrived upon the wind, which curled and parted round him as he walked on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These vapours are then conducted by separate jets to different points in the stove where the heat is to be applied. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When it is heavy, rainy weather, they all come in, wet through; and at such times the vapours of the court are like those of a fungus-pit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- At the very beginning of the 19th century John Dalton in England, 1801-1807, and Gay-Lussac in France began their investigations of gases and vapours. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For with sparky soot, snuffs and vapours, men have constant strife,-- Those who are not burned to death are smothered during life. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The sun raises the vapours from the sea, which form clouds, and fall in rain upon the land, and springs and rivers are formed of that rain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The consequence of the earthquake was a general sickness, from the noisome vapours belched forth, which swept away above three thousand persons. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She lay fuming in the vapours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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