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Free from weeds or noxious matter.
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Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
n.
A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
v. i.
To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
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Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
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To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
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Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.
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Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.
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One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
n. sing. & pl.
Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
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Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.
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Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
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Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
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That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.
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To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
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Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
v. t.
To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
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A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.
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A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
v. t.
To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
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