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Definition of Deadeners
1. deadener [n] - See also: deadener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadeners
Literary usage of Deadeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Sound Deadeners for Partitions.—To prevent the sounds from passing through the
building by the full contact of the partitions with the floor construction, ..."
2. Handbook of Casinghead Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1922)
"Many companies will attempt to use washers carrying pin holes in half unions,
one on either side of the gauge, or two deadeners in order to kill the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... or deadeners aro added to reduce or control the rate of combustion of the
explosive. Amongst these substances may bo mentioned camphor, vegetable oils, ..."
4. Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II by John Milton, Homer Baxter Sprague (1879)
"Of lines four and five, Landor remarks that they are ' incumbrances and deadeners
of the harmony.' ' Incumbrances' ?—to let the dark shadow give way to a ..."
5. Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I and II: With Introduction, Notes, and Diagrams by John Milton, Homer Baxter Sprague (1888)
"Deadeners of the harmony' ? De Quincey says, " Be assured it is yourself that do
not read with understanding; not Milton that by possibility can be found ..."
6. Contributions to the Bacteriology of the Oyster by Woods Hutchinson, Hollis Godfrey, Rhode Island (State) Commissioners of shell-fisheries, Lester Angell Round (1914)
"The great majority of cough cures are little more than deadeners of the sensitiveness
of the upper ..."
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