v. [f. the name of J. H. Kyan, the inventor of the process (patented in 1832) + -IZE.] trans. To impregnate (wood) with a solution of corrosive sublimate, as a preservative against decay. Hence Kyanized ppl. a., Kyanizing vbl. sb.
1837. C. Vignoles, in Mech. Mag., XXVI. 258. A railway bar to be laid upon half baulks of Kyanized timber.
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIII. 417. Let their timbers be Kyanized, their cables of iron.
1871. Hartwig, Subterr. World, xxiii. 268. Many remedies … among which kyanizing, or saturating the wood with a solution of corrosive sublimate, is one of the most efficacious.
