0 gas or extremely small drops of liquid that result from the heating of a liquid or solid:
1 a condition in which someone suddenly feels ill and weak, usually because of a shock
Despite the cold wet wind blowing in hard from the street, the cloud of mephitic vapours lingered stupefyingly about our heads.
The ticks proved very susceptible to the effects of the vapours of ammonia and clove oil respectively.
The method we finally adopted was to employ merely the vapours of various odoriferous substances in the manner which will be described below.
The idea that decomposing organic matter released vapours that generated acute diseases and general illhealth in humans was generally applicable to organic wastes.
There is also evidence that there is water within the mantle and these vapours and gases can be observed during volcanic eruptions.
Evaporation and condensation take place many times as the vapours rise up the column.
Under such conditions vapours diffuse through the porous surface layer.
Everything is still chaos, but, slowly, ghosts are transformed into living flesh, floating vapours turn solid, and - who knows?
