Definition of Humecting

1. humect [v] - See also: humect

Lexicographical Neighbors of Humecting

humdinger
humdingers
humdrum
humdrumness
humdrums
humect
humectant
humectants
humectate
humectated
humectates
humectating
humectation
humectations
humected
humecting (current term)
humective
humects
humefied
humefies
humefy
humefying
humeral
humeral artery
humeral articulation
humeral head
humeral veil
humerals
humeri
humeroperoneal

Literary usage of Humecting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"... lead, and copper, besides numerous other artificial minerals. These discoveries and other investigations in electricity were described at humecting of ..."

2. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"Upon diminution of the humecting plasma, by which the texture is pervaded (water). 2. Upon hypertrophy. Those augmentations of consistence are particularly ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1812)
"If the parts round the anus are the seat of the eruption, this will take the form of small dark humecting excrescences, resembling warts, •which at length ..."

4. The Musical World (1861)
"Great gouts of sweat they do scatter the while from their fronts and chaps, humecting the earth far around as a dog that ..."

5. Chemistry Applied to Arts and Manufactures by Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (1807)
"... by humecting with this liquid an alkaline sulphuret. 5. But the process the most frequently used in our laboratories, for obtaining this production in ..."

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