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Definition of Kyanise
1. to kyanize [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES] - See also: kyanize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kyanise
Literary usage of Kyanise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railways; Their Rise, Progress, and Construction: With Remarks on Railway by Robert Ritchie (1846)
"It was till lately the practice to kyanise• the wood sleepers; ... The Belgian •
kyanise, to prepare timber with Mr. Kyan's patent solution. ..."
2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1837)
"Loddiges kyanise all the wood from which they make their labels, stakes for
plants, &.c. The wood so prepared lasts for an interminable length of time, ..."
3. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1840)
"proached, by any other railway line in Ilie kingdom. The raits, remarkably .
are fifteen feet in length, and laid on longitudi-.il pieces of kyanise: r, ..."
4. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1837)
"If, therefore, a gardener were to kyanise tallies for naming plants, or sticks
for tying them up, before sharpening the ends to be inserted in the ground, ..."
5. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"... [also spelt kyanise] 'kai-a-naiz. Kyrie n. (the petition 'Kyrie eleison,'
Lord, have mercy) 'kai- я, 'kai-zi-i:, laager n., v. camp [also spelt lager] ..."
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