Paynize

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Payne's process \Payne's process\
     A process for preserving timber and rendering it
     incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions
     of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --
     {Payn"ize}, v. t.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Paynize \Payn"ize\, v. t. [From Mr. Payne, the inventor.]
     To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling
     kyanizing.
     [1913 Webster]