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▪ I. eˈvaporating, vbl. n. [f. evaporate v. + -ing1.] 1. The action of the vb. evaporate; lit. and fig.
1630J. Taylor (Water-P.) Wks. ii. 253/1 Let it bee a trade to practise..the gulpe, the euaporating or retention. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies Pref., The evaporating of Religion in the Doctrine thereof, into a multitude of perplext questions. 2. attrib., as evaporating dish, evaporating furnace, evaporating power; evaporating cone, an apparatus of Belgian invention, used in the sugar manufacture; evaporating pan, in sugar and salt manufacture, a large shallow iron vessel in which the juice of the sugarcane and the brine is evaporated.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., *Evaporating-cone.
1826Henry Elem. Chem. I. 3 A shallow kettle of water, in which is placed the *evaporating dish and its contents.
1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 27 The *evaporating furnace..serves not only for evaporation, but also for digestion, distillation, solutions, etc.
1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 14 A natural *evaporating pan for the production of salt.
1862Smiles Engineers II. 78 The *evaporating power of different kinds of fuel. ▪ II. evaporating, ppl. a.|ɪˈvæpəreɪtɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That evaporates.
1597Pilgr. Parnass. v. 576 Such an ayre as is wonte to proceede from an evaporatinge dunghill in a summers daye. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 60 [Evaporation] is greatly increased by a current of air or wind flowing over the evaporating surface. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea vii. §355 An evaporating region at sea. |