Vapor

va'per, n. (Physics.) Any substance in the gaseous or aeriform state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. Any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.; something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory, pi. Adis^ ease of nervous debility, in which a variety of strange images float in the brain, or appear as if visible; hypochondriacal affections; dejection; spleen; the blues. — v.i. [vapored (-perd), -poring.] To pa off in fumes, or a moist, floating substance; to steam, be exhaled, evaporate; to boast or vaunt with a vain, ostentatious display of worth; to brag.— Va'por-bath, n. Application of vapor or steam to the body in a close place; the place itself. — Va'porer, w. A braggart; boaster. — Va'poringly, adv. In a vaporing or boasting manner.— Va'pcrish, a. Full of vapors; affected by hysterics; splenetic: peevish; humorsome; hypochondriacal. — Va'porous, -per-us, a. Full of vapors or exhalations; windy; flatulent; proceeding from the vapors; unreal; vain. — Va'pory, -per-T, a. Full of vapors; hypochondriacal; splenetic: peevish. — Vap'orable, vap'o-ra-bl, a. Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat. — Vap'orabillty, n. Quality of being vaporable. — Vap'ora'tion, n. Act or proce of converting into vapor, or of pa ing off in vapor; evaporation.— Vap'or if 1c, a. Forming into vapor; converting into steam. — Vaprorize, -er-iz, v. t. [-ized (-Tzd), -izing.] To convert into vapor by the application of heat.— v. i. To pa off in vapor.— Vap'oriza'tion, n. Act of vaporizing, or state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor.