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A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

eat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 º Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96…

so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.

he process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

ong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.

ol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

Mist; fog; vapors. "The drifting brume." Longfellow.

An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.

erring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.…

Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. Milton.

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.

To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.

The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albumin…

To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.