Lexic.us

Definition of Spray can

1. Noun. A dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas).

Definition of Spray can

1. Noun. A pressurized canister that ejects its contents from a nozzle when a button is pressed; used especially for paint. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spray Can

Literary usage of Spray can

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

1. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society, British Soviet Friendship Society (1922)
"You may find it necessary to spray at a time when you cannot spray for codling moth, but usually black leaf 40 spray can be used with codling moth spray.1 ..."

2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1872)
"... always to have an assistant to work the spray ; but, by a little management, the spray can be worked perfectly well, as you sec, by the surgeon himself. ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1891)
"On the whole, the writer concludes that the chloride of methyl spray can be employed in all cases where an ether spray is used as a local anaesthetic ..."

4. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by David Braden Kyle (1907)
"By careful manipulation of this atomizer, the spray can be so directed as to reach any portion of the anterior region, and by inserting the tube carefully ..."

5. Mosquito Eradication by Walter Ernest Hardenburg (1922)
"THE SPRAYER The usual—and, for general purposes, the best—method of applying oil to quiet water surfaces is by means of a spray-can, which consists ..."

6. Mosquito Eradication by Walter Ernest Hardenburg (1922)
"THE SPRAYER The usual—and, for general purposes, the best—method of applying oil to quiet water surfaces is by means of a spray-can, which consists ..."

7. Annual Report: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Oregon State by Oregon State Horticultural Society (1922)
"This mildewing of the first new tips cannot be prevented by a spray since no dormant spray can reach and kill the fungus which lies over winter protected ..."

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