Definition of "etherizing" []

• Present participle of etherize. (verb)

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• "When a police surgeon hit on the idea of etherizing an obdurate "dummy chucker," to determine if the prisoner could talk or not, Blake appropriated the suggestion as his own."
• "Because the cow horn is now outwardly surrounded by the Earth, all the Earth's etherizing and astralizing rays stream into its inner cavity."
• "McKee-McCready modification of the Boyce thimble with the omission of the etherizing tube, which is no longer needed."