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27 words match “EFFERVESCE”

EFFERVESCE v. 2 definitions
it, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.
EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY n.
art of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
EFFERVESCENT a.
Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
INEFFERVESCENCE n.
Want of effervescence. Kirwan.
INEFFERVESCENT a.
Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
ANARCHAL a.
[R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.
BOIL v. 2 definitions
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job xii. 31.
BRISKNESS n.
Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
EBULLIENCE; EBULLIENCY n.
A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.
EBULLITION n.
Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aëriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]
EFFERVESCIVE a.
Tending to produce effervescence. "An effervescive force." Hickok.
EMBOIL v.
To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] Spenser.
ESCARPMENT n.
A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.
EXESTUATE v.
To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce. [Obs.]
EXESTUATION n.
A boiling up; effervescence. [Obs.] Boyle.
FERMENT v.
nternal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
FERMENTATION n.
The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.…
GELATINATE v.
nverted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly. Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids. Kirwan.
INEFFERVESCIBLE a.
Not capable or susceptible of effervescence.
KEFIR n.
An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus. -- Ke*fir"ic (#), a.
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