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Vapor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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 .

Vapor [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.]

4. To bully; to boast or vaunt with a vain ostentatious display of worth; to brag.

5. [This is the most usual signification of the word.]

6. And what in real value's wanting, supply with vaporing and ranting.

Vapor [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To emit, cast off or scatter in fumes or stream; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.

2. Another sighing vapors forth his soul.

Vapor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

6. A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.

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.

9. To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.

Vapor [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.

Vapor-bath [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Vaporability [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of being capable of vaporization.

Vaporability [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being vaporable.

Vaporable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of caloric.

Vaporable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.

Vaporate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To emit vapor; to evaporate.

Vaporation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor.

Vaporation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.

Vapored [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Moist; wet with vapors.

2. Splenetic; peevish.

Vapored [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Wet with vapors; moist.

2. Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.

Vapored [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Vaporer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A boaster; one who makes a vaunting display of his prowess or worth; a braggart.

Vaporer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who vapors; a braggart.

Vaporiferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Conveying or producing vapor.

Vaporific [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Forming into vapor; converting into steam, or expelling in a volatile form, as fluids.

Vaporific [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.

Vaporiform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.

Vaporimeter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Vaporing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Boasting; vaunting ostentatiously and vainly.

Vaporing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.

Vaporing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Vaporingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a boasting manner.

Vaporish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Full of vapors.

2. Hypochondriac; splenetic; affected by hysterics.

Vaporish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Full of vapors; vaporous.

2. Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.

Vaporizable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being vaporized into vapor.

Vaporization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The artificial formation of vapor.

Vaporization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.

Vaporize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To pass off in vapor.

Vaporize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To convert into vapor by the application of heat or artificial means.

Vaporize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To pass off in vapor.

Vaporize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.

Vaporized [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Expelled in vapor.

Vaporized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Vaporizer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.