Brewer's: Kyanise

(3 syl.) To apply corrosive sublimate to timber in order to prevent the dry-rot; so called from Dr. Kyan, who invented the process in 1832. (See Paynising.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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