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Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine..

Impure :: Impure (a.) Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc..

Bavin :: Bavin (n.) Impure limestone.

Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

Corinthian :: Corinthian (a.) Debauched in character or practice; impure.

Benzene :: Benzene (n.) A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum..

Chert :: Chert (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color..

Misy :: Misy (n.) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.

Barilla :: Barilla (n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes..

Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins..

Impure :: Impure (a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style..

Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..

Faints :: Faints (n.pl.) The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil..

Scum :: Scum (v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.

Impurely :: Impurely (adv.) In an impure manner.

Stagnant :: Stagnant (a.) That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins..

Galipot :: Galipot (n.) An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch..

Defile :: Defile (v. t.) To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like..

Pompholyx :: Pompholyx (n.) Impure zinc oxide.

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