fluxingn.
/ˈflʌksɪŋ/ a. The action of flux v. in various senses.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > use of sialogogues
salivating1658
fluxing1659
1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum Pref. An ordinary purge being sufficient for the one, whereas the foule body of the other doth require a Fluxing.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 353 A certain cure [for the mange]..was fluxing with mercury.
1777 Watson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 875 The roasting or fluxing of an ore.
b. concrete. = flux n. 11.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials used in metallurgical processes > [noun] > substance mixed with metal to facilitate fusion
fluss1683
white flux1741
flux1763
welding powder1873
fluxing1880
1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 127 The amount of ‘fluxings’ should be kept as small as possible.
Compounds
C1. attributive as fluxing-material;
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1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 264 Other descriptions..do not contain an equal abundance of fluxing materials.
C2.
fluxing-bed n. in the manufacture of soda, one of the two parts into which the sole of the furnace is divided.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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ˈfluxing
ˈfluxing adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [adjective] > salivated > salivating
fluxing1702
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative
outrunningeOE
laxativea1398
purgativea1398
openinga1400
abstersive?a1425
purging?c1425
solublec1503
minorative1543
purgy1562
relaxing1562
solutive1564
benedict1576
aperitive1582
scouring1597
apertive1605
dejective1605
relaxative1611
subductory1620
calastic1621
aperient1626
cathartic1639
dejectory1640
relaxant1651
spurginga1652
cathartical1656
anastomotic1657
ecphractic1657
ecphractical1657
rhyptical1657
rhyptic1659
loosening1665
eccathartic1681
fluxing1702
chalastic1704
loosinga1722
hypactic1753
evacuatory1789
evacuant1800
relaxatory1925
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > salivating
fluxing1702
1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 190 From the fluxing Bagnio just dismist.
1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote i. iv. 71 As Fluxing Patients..Suck Broaths and Cordials thro' a Quill.
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