transpiratory (trans pir at or i)

[ transpire (tran-spīr'), v.; pret. and pp. transpired, ppr. transpiring. [F. transpirer = Sp. transpirar, traspirar = Pg. transpirar = It. traspirare. 6437 I. trans. To emit through the excretories of the skin or lungs; send off in vapor; exhale. II. in trans. 1. To send out an exhalation; exhale. [Rare.] This, that, and ev'ry thicket doth transpire More sweet than storax from the hallowed fire. Herrick , Apparition of his Mistre e Calling him to [Elizium. 2. To pa through or out of some body, as an exhalation; specifically, to be emitted through the excretories of the skin or lungs; exhale; pa off from the body in vapor, as in insensible perspiration. What [substance] redounds, transpires Through spirits with ease. Milton , P. L., v. 438. They [root-hairs) abound most in plants inhabiting dry places and in those which transpire freely. Science, V. 36. But how are we to account, in a mind otherwise sane, from him, and took the shape of flies or bees? for his [Harrington's] notion that his thoughts transpired I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., II. 385. 3. In bot., to exhale watery vapor. See tran spiration, 2.-4. To escape from secrecy; become public gradually; come to light; ooze out. To transpire,.. to escape from secrecy to notice: a sense lately innovated from France without nece ity. Johnson, Dict. So the whole journal transpires at length by piecemeal. Lamb , Last E ays of Elia. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.... Some damning circumstance always transpires . Emerson , Compensation. 5. To happen or come to pa ; occur. [An erroneous use.] The penny-a-liners “allude" in cases where others would "refer"; and, in their dialect, things " transpire , " and only exceptionally "take place." F. Hall, On Adjectives in -able, p. 161. [