She brought with her a clean aromatic odor of disinfectants.

"4. Disinfectants and whitewash.

Cracks in the stone floor let in migrating bands of red ants that no disinfectant would drive away.

He was a "fundi" at taking out jiggers, and sat for hours at the feet of our foot-soldiers; quickly adopting an air of authority that occasionally brought him swift blows from East African troopers, who do not tolerate easily such airs in a native, he produced the unbroken jigger flea with unfailing regularity and prescribed the pail of disinfectant in which the tortured feet were soaked.

A solution of the chloride of lime too, a most powerful disinfectant, should be used to purify the different apartments.

Nor could he help hearing; he didn't try to listen; he certainly didn't wish to, though she had a very sweet voicethat soothed one to a species of lotus dreamforgetfulness of soap-suds, or the odor of canine disinfectant permeating the white foam "Why should they think you have a social secretary?"

She couldn't be washed again, as the Quartermaster had already written three scathing chits about the previous use of depôt disinfectant.

In Sickness and in Health Care of the Sick-Room; Poisons and their Antidotes; Bacteria; Disinfectants; Management of Contagious Diseases.

Tack sheets, wet in some proper disinfectant, to the outer frame of the sick-room door.

The word disinfectant is synonymous with the term bactericide or germicide.

A disinfectant is a substance which destroys infectious material.

A deodorant is not necessarily a disinfectant, or even an antiseptic, but refers to a substance that destroys or masks offensive odors.

Corrosive sublimate is probably the most powerful disinfectant known.

cover, drugget^. wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier &c v.; disinfectant; aperient^; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin^; bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent^, laxative.

[Med.], epulotic^, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic^, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent^, emollient; depuratory^; detersive^, detergent; abstersive^, disinfectant, febrifugal^, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary.

Underneath the table I had several buckets full of disinfectant.

Policemen in uniform and unmistakable detectives stood about the various entries, and little knots of people, evil-looking and unclean for the most part, lurked in the background or sat on benches and diffused through the stale, musty air that distinctive but indescribable odour that clings to police vans and prison reception rooms; an odour that, in the present case, was pleasantly mingled with the suggestive aroma of disinfectants.

His official life was creditable to a high degree, but his private life seemed to call loudly for a good, competent disinfectant.

The poultice should be medicated with any reliable disinfectant, and should be renewed, or at any rate reheated, two or three times daily.

" Dr. Withers, bringing with him an intolerable smell of disinfectants and chloroform, hurried in, with his hair mussed from the haste with which he had removed his operating-garments.

But on departure for the "middle passage," as the trip to America was called by reason of its being the second leg of the ship's triangular voyage in the trade, the slaves were kept below at night and in foul weather, and were allowed above only in daylight for food, air and exercise while the crew and some of the slaves cleaned the quarters and swabbed the floors with vinegar as a disinfectant.

Just as his passion reached its height (he stood with his back to the door) there entered a lady who wished to make a large purchase of disinfectants.

The captains of the great liners lamented their luxurious staterooms converted into dormitories for the troops, their polished decks that had been turned into stables, their dining-room where they used to sit among people in dress suits and low-neck gowns, which had now to be sprayed with every class of disinfectant in order to repel the invasion of vermin, and the animal odors of so many men and beasts crowded together.

According to the one theory the fire is a stimulant, according to the other it is a disinfectant; on the one view its virtue is positive, on the other it is negative.

CHLORINE, elementary, greenish-yellow gas obtained from common salt; powerful as a disinfectant, and a bleaching agent.