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vapored

vapored


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vapor  \Va"por\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Vapored};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Vaporing}.]  [From  {Vapor},  n.:  cf  L.  vaporare.]  [Written 
  also  {vapour}.] 
  1.  To  pass  off  in  fumes,  or  as  a  moist,  floating  substance, 
  whether  visible  or  invisible,  to  steam;  to  be  exhaled;  to 
  evaporate. 
 
  2.  To  emit  vapor  or  fumes.  [R.] 
 
  Running  waters  vapor  not  so  much  as  standing  waters. 
  --Bacon. 
 
  3.  To  talk  idly;  to  boast  or  vaunt;  to  brag. 
 
  Poets  used  to  vapor  much  after  this  manner. 
  --Milton. 
 
  We  vapor  and  say  By  this  time  Matthews  has  beaten 
  them  --Walpole. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vapored  \Va"pored\,  a. 
  1.  Wet  with  vapors;  moist. 
 
  2.  Affected  with  the  vapors.  See  {Vapor},  n.,  5.