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Definition of Exsiccating
1. exsiccate [v] - See also: exsiccate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsiccating
Literary usage of Exsiccating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"The American " fruit-drier" can advantageously be employed also for the exsiccating
of bananas. Mr. W. Reynolds, of Daintree-River, Northern Queensland, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1877)
"With this substance I proceeded as follows :—The hygrometer, fitted with a measured
length of gut-line, perfectly dried in the exsiccating receiver during ..."
3. Lectures on Explosives: A Course of Lectures Prepared Especially as a Manual by Willoughby Walke (1897)
"The importance of using an exsiccating substance is further shown if we refer to the
... Concentrated sulphuric acid is used as the exsiccating substance, ..."
4. Lectures on Explosives: A Course of Lectures Prepared Especially as a Manual by Willoughby Walke (1900)
"The importance of using an exsiccating substance is further shown if we refer to the
... Concentrated sulphuric acid is used as the exsiccating substance, ..."
5. Notes on Lilies and Their Culture by Alexander Wallace (1879)
"The former is exposed to sea breezes and fogs; the latter to a dry exsiccating air.
It may be? stated in connection with the above remarks, that bulbs from ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"The exsiccating properties of the desert atmosphere would be eminently conducive
to its preservation, and it might remain intact for many centuries. ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1863)
"... and behold the learned professors of arts and sciences, with their souls all
shrivelled up bv the exsiccating process of this Anglican drying-house, ..."
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