单词 | vaporary |
释义 | ▪ I. † ˈvaporary, n. [ad. mod.L. vaporarium, f. L. vapor vapour. Cf. L. vapōrārium a steam-pipe in a bath.] A medical preparation used in a form of vapour-bath.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 187 A vaporary consists of the same things a semicupium is made of. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 504 Of a Vaporarie:..fiat decoctio..cujus vaporem excipiat. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Vaporary, a Decoction of Herbs, and other ingredients, the fume whereof ascends through the hole of a Chair where the patient sits. [Hence in later edd. and other Dicts. The additional definition in Bailey (1721–) ‘a stove, stew, hot-house or bagnio’ follows Kersey (1706) s.v. Vaporarium.] ▪ II. † ˈvaporary, a. Obs.—1 [f. as prec.: see -ary.] (See quot.)
1653R. G. tr. Bacon's Hist. Winds 94 Let us see what may be said concerning Vaporary windes (we mean such as are engendred by vapours). |

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