Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To emit vapor; evaporate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To emit vapor; to evaporate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To emit
vapour ; toevaporate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ftelings e vaporate, whilst we are poking out the dillRsrence between an R and an N.
Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St ... 1812
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I wrt them inthi»9 | that the Wa* ter in thefe. might not have more Scope to e - vaporate than that in the other Viols - Thus they flood the whole 77 Days in the famtl Window with the reft; when, upon Exami -
Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena ... 1705
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And again, -- "For the situation of the garden-plot for pleasure, you shall understand, that it must ever bee placed so neare unto the dwelling-house as it is possible, both because the eye of the owner may be a guard and support from inconveniences, as all that the especial roomes and prospects of the house may be adorned, perfumed, and inriched with the delicate proportions, odoriferous smells, and wholesome airs which shall ascend and vaporate from the same."
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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