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vapourer|ˈveɪpərə(r)|
Also 9 vaporer.
[f. vapour v.]
1. One who vapours; a bragging, grandiloquent, or fantastical talker.
1653Gauden Hierasp. 223 This pusillanimous and frothy generation of vapourers..are the greatest enemies to..our Religion. 1665Pepys Diary 3 Dec., A fortunate, though a passionate and but weak, man as to policy,..and one that is the greatest vapourer in the world. 1771Fletcher Checks Wks. 1795 III. 238 That vapourer in favour of your perseverance, fairly and consistently builds on..the foundation of the Calvinists. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 214 We might show how applicable to certain rhetorical metaphysical vaporers the descriptions are. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 344 Not one of your old serene metaphysical vapourers.
2. vapourer moth, a British moth of the genus Orgyia, esp. O. antiqua, the male of which flies with a rapid quivering motion.
1782W. Curtis Brown-tail Moth 6 The Phalæna Antiqua, or Vapourer Moth, which I have seen to thrive on the deadly Nightshade and poisonous Laurel. 1832T. Brown Bk. Butterflies & M. (1834) I. 49 The following figure of the female Vapourer Moth. 1871Kingsley At Last viii, A crawling grub, like the female of our own Vapourer moth. 1890Ormerod Injur. Insects (ed. 2) 322 The pretty and easily distinguishable caterpillar of the Common Vapourer Moth.
ellipt.1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 418 Bombyx gonostigmata. The scarce Vapourer. 1861Morris Brit. Moths I. 77 Orgyia antiqua, Vapourer. |