Effloresce
(Ef`flo*resce") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Effloresced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Efflorescing ] [L. efflorescere
to bloom, blossom; ex + florescere to begin to blossom, incho., fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos a flower.
See Flower.]
1. To blossom forth. Carlyle.
2. (Chem.) 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, Glauber's salts,
and many others, effloresce.
3. 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,
the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action
in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.
Efflorescence
(Ef`flo*res"cence) n. [F. efflorescence.]
1. (Bot.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
2. (Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.
3. (Chem.) (a) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as
salts, etc. (b) The powder or crust thus formed.
Efflorescency
(Ef`flo*res"cen*cy) n. The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.
Efflorescent
(Ef`flo*res"cent) a. [F. efflorescent, L. efflorescens, -entis, blooming, p. pr. of efflorescere.
See Effloresce, v. i.]
1. That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.
2. Covered with an efflorescence.
Efflower
(Ef*flow"er) v. t. [Cf. F. effleurer.] (Leather Making) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with
a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, — as in making chamois leather.
Effluence
(Ef"flu*ence) n. [Cf. F. effluence.]
1. A flowing out, or emanation.
2. That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.
Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Milton.
And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished
with their sorrow.
Hawthorne. Effluency
(Ef"flu*en*cy) n. Effluence.
Effluent
(Ef"flu*ent) a. [L. effluens, -entis, p. pr. of effluere to flow out; ex + fluere to flow: cf. F. effluent.
See Fluent.] Flowing out; as, effluent beams. Parnell.
Effluent
(Ef"flu*ent), n. (Geog.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
Effluviable
(Ef*flu"vi*a*ble) a. Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.
Effluvial
(Ef*flu"vi*al) a. Belonging to effluvia.
