rankness

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A still more simple and sooner prepared Application, is that of one Egg, both the Yolk and the White, beat up with two common Spoonfuls of the sweetest Oil, without any Rankness.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Think ye the rain-drop heedeth if it draws Rankness as well as Beauty from the ground?

From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

Rankness affords another example where superfluity of water is concerned, though it does not involve simply this, because the plant may also contain excessive quantities of nitrogenous and mineral matters taken up by the roots.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Rankness affords, in fact, a typical illustration of predisposition to disease.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Engraving 41: Rankness of Tropical Vegetation The sketch opposite will give some idea of the manner in which the rankness of tropical vegetation is hurrying to destruction these interesting remains.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.