rarefy

How To Use rarefy In A Sentence

• In the inner heartwood, these bodies were rarefying and cell walls became impregnated by a brown colour.
• Everyone ought to rarefy his spiritual life.
• A head of one hundred and eighty degrees is sufficient to diminish the weight of the air it contains to the extent of one-half, by rarefying it. Five Weeks in a Balloon
• And this, in my opinion, is the reason why the night is more sonorous, and the day less; since in the day, the heat rarefying the air makes the empty spaces between the particles to be very little. Essays and Miscellanies
• NOTE. — _fy_, meaning to make, is found as a suffix in derivatives too numerous to mention; as, purify (to _make pure_), rarefy (to _make rare_), classify (to _make_ or put into a _class_), etc. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
• [Illustration: Fig. 18 -- Rarefying osteitis in chronic ringbone and ossification of lateral cartilages.] Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
• And with regard to their balsamic and aromatic nature, these qualities warm the stomach and expel wind, by rarefying the flatuous exhalations from chyle in the prima viæ. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
• And here, it is proper to add, that all aromatics, by rarefying the blood, are cordial. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
• The insertion of an inner rod into the waveguide can rarefy the spectrum of the competing modes in the vicinity of the operating mode and restrict the mode competing effectively.
• In the inner heartwood, these bodies were rarefying and cell walls became impregnated by a brown colour.