disinfectorn.
= disinfecter n.; spec. a device for diffusing a disinfectant in the air.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > [noun] > disinfectant
disinfector1832
disinfectant1837
disinfecter1845
sanitizer1950
1832 Ld. Campbell Let. 15 Aug. in Life (1881) III. xix. 15 In court we are almost overpowered by fumigations and aspersions..A druggist has made a little fortune by selling what he denominates ‘disinfectors’.
1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
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n.1832- give the rough edge of one's tongue
- give the route
- give the runaround
- give the rush
- give the sack
- give the screaming habdabs
- give the seed furrow
- give the seed furrow to
- give the sele of the day
- give the shirt off one's back
- give the shits
- give the shoot
- give the show away
- give the sick
- give the silent treatment
- give the slip
- gnaw at
- gnaw away
- gnaw in two
- gnaw into
- gnaw off
- gnaw on
- gnaw out
- gnaw up
- gnaw-bone