Consequently, the treatment was by applying foetidsmells to the nose and rubbing fragrant ointments around the sexual parts.
The semen of a bull afforded Verrheyen, by a chemical process, first phlegm, afterwards a considerable quantity of foetid oil, but little volatile salt, and much more earth than he could have thought.
This change generally happens on the second or third day, and then the excrement becomes more foetid than the meconium; a proof that the bile and other bitter humours of the body begin to intermix with it.
It was due to the foetid exhalations produced by this mass of noisome reptiles congregated within a confined space far removed from the outer air.
An extraordinaryfoetid and overpowering atmosphere had taken its place.
I know a person whose stools are, in common, very little tinged with bile, who after taking calcined Magnesia, evacuates faeces of a very bilious appearance, though less foetid than usual.
If we fail, then death is preferable to life in this foetid pit, chained up and treated like dogs.
Heavy foetid mists wreathed up from the waters, poisoning the air; noxious insects hummed about our couches, and loathly reptiles crawled out of the mud and chilled our hearts with their horrible croakings.
Here we were to pass the night, or rather the remainder of it, the mail going on to Nashville, and taking our foetid bodkin on with it.
It is distinguished by a foetid odour and poisonous properties.
In his imagination he sniffed the foetid odours from the torrential yellow stream.
To allow the foetid fresh water to dry on them would be courting a speedy attack of black-water fever.
Roasted coffee in powder form gives good results if dusted over ulcers and gangrenous sores, rapidly improving their appearance and destroying the foetid odor.
The foetid odor of this plant has suggested both the technical and common names for it.
Flowers of a foetid or feculent odor, hermaphrodite, in compound racemes.
In many the attractive forms would be considered objects of beauty, were it not for their deliquescence, and often foetid odour.
Not only are some members of this order most singular in appearance, but they possess an odour so foetid as to be unapproached in this property by any other vegetable production.
Here, as at the point of our landing, the banks of the canal consisted of black slimy foetid mud, out of which grew a belt of mangroves, their curious twisted roots straggling in a thick complicated mass of net-work over the slime beneath.
At the moment of being seized they emit a milky and foetid liquid.
When seized, it pours out from the extremity of its abdomen a foetid liquid, the only means of defence the poor insect possesses.
Tristram passed it, and a gust of foetid wind goaded the flames to a sudden brilliance, so that he saw upon what it was they fed themselves.
He felt that no light could live in that stifling, foetid atmosphere.
Something rose up to him in that heated, foetid atmosphere of a passion-ridden humanity.
At other times the contrast to the foetid street outside must have been overwhelming, but even now the dwelling's cool monastic purity arrested her on the threshold.
This green thready substance has the power of rendering foetidwater sweet; for which purpose, when water is scarce, it is usually put into water-tubs and reservoirs.
Observations on Nauseous Poisonous Plants Observations on Acrid Poisonous Vegetables Observations on Stupefying Poisonous Vegetables Observations on Foetid Poisons Observations on Drastic Poisons Observations on Poisonous Fungi, Mushrooms, &c.
She turned her head swiftly from his foetid breath.
To these the foetid gums are to be added, especially assa foetida, myrrh, and galbanum.
The virtues of several mineral waters, and the foetid smell of animal excrements, chiefly arise from the presence of this gas.
The sulphurated hydrogen gas was called hepatic air by former chemists, or foetid air from sulphur, by Mr Scheele.
The holes run through its substance, but they are all empty, or filled only with the black foetid mud which the sea has deposited in their cavities.
When he recovered from his swoon, (in which he had lain for many hours) he felt numbed with cold, sick with the foetid atmosphere of the place, and faint with hunger.
Soon a dull, sluggish sound was heard, like the trickling of muddy water; and a foetid odor entered the nostrils, similar to the loathsome exhalations of a stagnant pool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foetid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
