Part 3621

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To blossom forth.</def>

<i>Carlyle.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; <as>as, Glauber's salts, and many others, <ex>effloresce</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; <as>as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes <ex>effloresce</ex> with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere</as>.</def>

<h1>Efflorescence</h1> <Xpage=473>

<hw>Ef`flo*res"cence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>efflorescence</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The powder or crust thus formed.</def>

<h1>Efflorescency</h1> <Xpage=473>

<hw>Ef`flo*res"cen*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.</def>

<h1>Efflorescent</h1> <Xpage=473>

<hw>Ef`flo*res"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>efflorescent</ets>, L. <ets>efflorescens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, blooming, p. pr. of <ets>efflorescere</ets>. See <er>Effloresce</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; <as>as, an <ex>efflorescent</ex> salt</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Covered with an efflorescence.</def>

<h1>Efflower</h1> <Xpage=473>

<hw>Ef*flow"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>effleurer</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Leather Making)</fld> <def>To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.</def>

<h1>Effluence</h1> <Xpage=473>

<hw>Ef"flu*ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>effluence</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A flowing out, or emanation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.</def>

<blockquote>Bright <b>effluence</b> of bright essence increate! <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the <b>effluence</b> of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Effluency</h1> <Xpage=473>

<hw>Ef"flu*en*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Effluence.</def>

<h1>Effluent</h1> <Xpage=473>

<hw>Ef"flu*ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>effluens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>effluere</ets> to flow out; <ets>ex + fluere</ets> to flow: cf. F. <ets>effluent</ets>. See <er>Fluent</er>.]</ety> <def>Flowing out; <as>as, <ex>effluent</ex> beams</as>.</def>

<i>Parnell.</i>