Any substance in the gaseous, or aëriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
Wind; flatulence.
Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues.
A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.
To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
To emit vapor or fumes.
To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
An aëriform fluid; - a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aëriform state.
A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.
same as gasoline; - a shortened form. Also, the accelerator pedal of a motor vehicle; used in the term " step on the gas".
the accelerator pedal of a motor vehicle; used in the term " step on the gas".
Same as natural gas.
an exceptionally enjoyable event; a good time; as, The concert was a gas.
To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread.
To impregnate with gas; as, to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder.
to expose to a poisonous or noxious gas
