I was obliged to etherize it a little, so as to stupefy it, and render it less uneasy.

I'm afraid I got kind of mixed up—I could think of nothin' but etherize.

Therefore they etherize and dissect down for the purpose of exploring, to ascertain if the guess is right or wrong.

I guess it was the strugglin' that confused my mind, and I been wondering why I could etherize a lot of struggling young poets.