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Poured out freely; profuse. [Obs.] So should our joy be very effuse. Barrow.

ing; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or é-; as, escape, scape, élite. Ex-, prefixed…

Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.

Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy. -- n.

of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.

To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.

isperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products. Coxe.