Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing clouds (of tobacco-smoke).
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- adjective that produces
clouds ofsmoke
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Examples
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I am a misocapnist, particularly when someone is using mundungus with nepheligenous results.
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We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.
Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
jmjarmstrong commented on the word nepheligenous
JM used to be a nepheligenous fella - then the misocapnists got to him.
November 22, 2009