Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; flat; as vapid beer; a vapid state of the blood.
2. Dull; unaminated.
Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
1. The state of having lost its life or spirit; deadness; flatness; as the vapidness of ale or cider.
2. Dullness; want of life or spirit.
1. In a general sense, an invisible elastic fluid, rendered aeriform by heat, and capable of being condensed, or brought back to the liquid or solid state, by cold. The vapor of water is distinguished by the name of steam, which see.
2. A visible fluid floating in the atmosphere. All substances which impair the transparency of the atmosphere, as smoke, fog, etc. are in common language called vapors, though the term vapor is technical applied only to an invisible and condensible substance, as in No. 1; fog, etc. being vapor condensed, or water in a minute state of division. vapor rising into the higher regions of the atmosphere, and condensed in large volumes, forms clouds.
3. Substances resembling smoke, which sometimes fill the atmosphere, particularly in America during the autumn.
4. Wind; flatulence.
5. Mental fume; vain imagination; unreal fancy.
6. Vapors, a disease of nervous debility, in which a variety of strange images float in the brain, or appear as if visible. Hence hypochondriacal affections and spleen are called vapors.
7. Something unsubstantial, fleeting or transitory.
8. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:1 .
1. To pass off in fumes or a moist floating substance; to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate. [In this sense, evaporate is generally used.]
2. To emit fumes.
3. Running water vapors not so much as standing water. [Little used.]
5. [This is the most usual signification of the word.]
2. Another sighing vapors forth his soul.
1. Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
2. In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
3. Wind; flatulence.
4. Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
5. An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues.
7. To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
8. To emit vapor or fumes.
To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
1. The application of vapor to the body in a close place.
2. In chimistry, an apparatus for heating bodies by the fumes of hot water.
The quality of being capable of vaporization.
The quality or state of being vaporable.
Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
1. Wet with vapors; moist.
2. Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.
Conveying or producing vapor.
Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
In a boasting manner.
1. Full of vapors.
1. Full of vapors; vaporous.
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13 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Vap”
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.
He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire; so reviling before blood.
The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:
A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery vapours, and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.