
apparatus for cooling air
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• (n.) A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties.
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Ther·man'ti·dote noun [ Greek ... heat + English antidote .] A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties. [ India] « Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where the thermantidotes
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