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hartshorning

hartshorning is the present participle and gerund of hartshorn.

Meaning of hartshorn

Verb

hartshorn (third-person singular simple present hartshorns, present participle hartshorning, simple past and past participle hartshorned)

  1. (transitive) To revive with hartshorn smelling salts.
    • Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC

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Questions about hartshorning

What is hartshorning the present participle and gerund of?
Hartshorning is the present participle and gerund of hartshorn.

Words near hartshorning in the dictionary

  1. hartshorn salt
  2. hartshorn salts
  3. Hartshorne
  4. hartshorned
  5. Hartshornes
  6. hartshorning
  7. hartshorns
  8. Hartsock
  9. Hartsocks
  10. Hartsoe
  11. Hartsoes

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