To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, toputrefy an ulcer or wound.
Permitted to remain without further precaution, every one of the tubes would putrefy and fill itself with life.
The blood would putrefy and become fetid; and when you examine more closely what putrefaction means, you find the putrefying substance swarming with infusorial life, the germs of which have been derived from the atmospheric dust.
Pure blood, for example, drawn with due precautions from the veins, will never ferment or putrefy in contact with pure air.
They all contain albuminous or azotised principles, which in a moist state putrefy and suffer decomposition.
The natives of the countries where this fruit is found practise a method for preserving it, which consists in allowing the nitrogenous parts of the fruit to putrefy in water-tight pits.
Further—and this is most important—the filtrate could be evaporated to dryness without offensive odour, and showed no tendency whatever to putrefy when left for months in an ordinary bottle.
At the first news of a tiger being slain I hastened to get its fat, which I kept melted in a little vessel; for if raw, it would soon putrefy in so hot a climate.
In order that the wounded woman may vomit up the blood trickling from the wound to the inmost parts of the body, which would otherwise putrefy, and cause the lungs and other parts to putrefy also.
All these acids decompose the parts when they are not sufficiently diluted with water; they allow the liquor to putrefy or to freeze, and break the vessel when they are too weak.
