[f. prec. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. EVAPORATE; lit. and fig.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 253/1. Let it bee a trade to practise … the gulpe, the euaporating or retention.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies, Pref. The evaporating of Religion in the Doctrine thereof, into a multitude of perplext questions.
2. attrib., as evaporating dish, furnace, power; evaporating cone, an apparatus of Belgian invention, used in the sugar manufacture; evaporating pan, in sugar and salt manufacture, a large shallow iron vessel in which the juice of the sugarcane and the brine is evaporated.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., *Evaporating-cone.
1826. Henry, Elem. Chem., I. 3. A shallow kettle of water, in which is placed the *evaporating dish and its contents.
1800. trans. Lagrange’s Chem., I. 27. The *evaporating furnace … serves not only for evaporation, but also for digestion, distillation, solutions, etc.
1862. M. Hopkins, Hawaii, 14. A natural *evaporating pan for the production of salt.
1862. Smiles, Engineers, II. 78. The *evaporating power of different kinds of fuel.
