(definition) by Webster 1913 Sat Jan 21 2006 at 15:28:31

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.

 

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