This mixture, humected with a sufficient quantity of water for reducing it into a thick paste, grows so hot, that the vessel containing it cannot be held in the hand.
The mercury is incorporated with the salt by humecting it with a little water.
It is well known, that, after some days drought, on the falling of rain that humects the earth, there arises a grateful smell.
He ran unto the river Liffey, peeled off his breeches and jumped in, humecting thus his hairy skin.
With this preparation I continued to humect the compost every other evening.