Vocabulary : Effigies to Efflorescent

Effigies : See Effigy. ;; of Effigy
Effigy : The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
Efflagitate : To ask urgently.
Efflate : To fill with breath; to puff up.
Efflation : The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.

Effloresce : To blossom forth. ;; To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce. ;; To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.
Effloresced : of Effloresce
Efflorescence : Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth. ;; A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc. ;; The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc. ;; The powder or crust thus formed.
Efflorescency : The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.
Efflorescent : That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt. ;; Covered with an efflorescence.

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