单词 | perflate |
释义 | perflate, v. Now rare.|pəˈfleɪt| [f. L. perflāt-, ppl. stem of perflāre, f. per- 1 + flāre to blow. Cf. inflate.] trans. To blow through, ventilate.
c1540Boorde The boke for to Lerne B ij b, Come thou south wynde and perflat my gardyn. 1620Venner Via Recta Introd. 5 They cannot be freely perflated and purified with the windes. 1798W. Blair Soldier's Friend 55 The canvas should be drawn up every day, the straw well shaken, and perflated by the wind. 1831J. Porter Sir E. Seaward's Narr. II. 123 We permitted it [the air] to perflate our dwelling by night as well as by day. Hence perˈflating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 128 In some systems..the perflating power of the wind has been used. |

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