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m the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

in arid and semiarid regions, containing an unusual amount of soluble mineral salts which effloresce in the form of a powder or crust (usually white) in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly soda with a smaller amount of potash, and usually a little lime and magnesia. Two main c…

ning iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.

Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.

An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.

r Mahogany. -- Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence. -- Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime. -- Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint. -- Mountain ousel (Zoöl.), the ring ousel; -- called also mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel. -…

Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.

A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary. -- Nettle rash. See Urticaria. -- Rose rash. See Roseola. -- Tooth rash. See Red-gum.

and sea crayfish. -- Rock meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence. -- Rock milk. (Min.) See Agaric mineral, under Agaric. -- Rock moss, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See Cudbear. -- Rock oil. See Petroleum. -- Rock parrakeet (Zoöl.), a small Australian parrakeet (Euphema petro…

A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash. -- Ro*se"o*lous, a.