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To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice. And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. Rev. xv. 3. And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.

To infect. [Prov. Eng.]

Infectious; catching. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] H. Kingsley.

To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.

, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.

A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

eck; obstruction. It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. De Foe. Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

alubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin…

xtraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.

Free from taint or infection; pure.

Infectious; contageous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.

To infect; to affect slightly. Bacon.

To infect with tuberculosis. --Tu*ber`cu*lar*i*za"tion (#), n.

An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet, often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific microörganism.

To poison; to infect with poison. [R.] Harvey.

To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] "Venomed vengeance." Shak.

An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.

A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.