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tection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay.

A state of not being exposed.

The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.

ntained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.

The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

rent; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. "The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.

A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.

To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.

A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

ling by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

balsam, Balsam of fir, Canada turpentine, a yellowish, viscid liquid, which, by time and exposure, becomes a transparent solid mass. It is obtained from the balm of Gilead (or balsam) fir (Abies balsamea) by breaking the vesicles upon the trunk and branches. See Balm.

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat. Basks at the fire his hairy strength. Milton.

s in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.

An exposure of a single man to be taken up.