Definition of Expellants

1. expellant [n] - See also: expellant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expellants

expeditionists
expeditions
expeditious
expeditiously
expeditiousness
expeditive
expeditor
expeditors
expel
expeled
expelee
expelees
expeling
expellable
expellant
expellants (current term)
expelled
expellee
expellees
expellent
expellents
expeller
expellers
expelleth
expelling
expellings
expels
expence
expences
expencive

Literary usage of Expellants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"... ie, stimulated the action of the kidneys; 18 were laxatives, promoting bowel action; 10 were vermifuges or worm expellants; and 8 were astringents. ..."

2. Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons: Told Chiefly Through Her Correspondence by Abby Hopper Gibbons (1897)
"He is expelled, and for them to remain in association with the expellants, would be to be in apparent league against him. I conceive it to be a duty to ..."

3. Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons: Told Chiefly Through Her Correspondence by Abby Hopper Gibbons (1897)
"He is expelled, and for them to remain in association with the expellants, would be to be in apparent league against him. I conceive it to be a duty to ..."

4. Submarine and Anti-submarine by Henry John Newbolt (1919)
"... or pushing them out, the amount of water ballast could be nicely regulated, and the necessity for compressed air or other expellants was avoided. ..."

5. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"... and sodium bicarbonate in a class of medicines of the " Castoria " type, which are recommended as laxatives and worm expellants especially for children. ..."

6. A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customes of by Samuel Morewood (1838)
"... dissolvents of mucus, and expellants of calcareous concretions : hence, in long voyages, essence of spruce is now deemed indispensable. ..."

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