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Fumigation   Listen
noun
Fumigation  n.  
1.
The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
2.
Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.





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"Fumigation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ch'ai blandly, "to the odour of fumigation; good clothes become impregnated with the smell ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... all Chinamen, were taken to the quarantine station, where the usual process of fumigation ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 29, May 27, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... believe in the predictions of a certain popular preacher, that the disease will reach our shores before autumn, to lay in a good stock of genuine brandy and laudanum. Notwithstanding bleeding, calomel in small and large doses, opium, cajeput oil, sub-carbonate of ammonia, muriatic acid, camphor fumigation, warm covering, and friction have been employed, the disease has run its regular course, and the result, in every case, seems to have depended on the natural stamina of the patients. To those who had freely indulged ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, - Issue 493, June 11, 1831 • Various


Words linked to "Fumigation" :   covering, application


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