Noun : the vapors rising from the bogs.    From Dictionary.com. 

… It monitors vapors from the skin and sends them to a modem for data collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Smart bracelet detects alcohol] Reference

The arrangements for the admission of air and carrying along the vapors are the same as in the other case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference

The vapors which issue from this liquid contain almost solely pure alcohol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference

And it comes off as well aimed snark, instead of sounding like Scarlet O’Hara with a case of the shreiking vapors, which is the approved GOP reaction to everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Obama hits critics who are rushing to call health care reform a failure: ‘It’s only been a week!’] Reference

One artifact of the process is an occasional halo, sometimes called "vapors", around certain moving objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference

The vapors are my specialty: and I love you too!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fracas] Reference

On closer inspection you can see the vapors arising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference

 He blissfully expired the vapors of the single malt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Pool Party] Reference

All these man parts have me catchin 'the vapors, sugar!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaneika Dabney: Breaking News: NFL Player Penises "Don't Impress Me Much"] Reference

 Go ahead, take a deep breath and smell the oil vapors.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Commencement Speech] Reference

   Deep within he still harbors the vapors of past evils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference

Selena disappeared into the delicious vapors of the kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man Loses Life] Reference

For thirty yards the fleeing ape-things sped on into the purple vapors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zehru of Xollar] Reference

Heat and the smell of food that's lived too long in the freezer vapors over her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gatlinburg] Reference

If your child breathes in poisonous vapors, get him fresh air and call the poison center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keep the kids safe while spring cleaning] Reference

The vapors of varnished floorboards have not yet been displaced by the plump sap of summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosopher] Reference

Even analysis of vapors picked up by CW inspectors could reveal secrets of Stealth construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Stealthy Move] Reference

Weetjens trained his rats to associate the scent of explosives vapors with a click sound and food.    From Wordnik.com.  [A NOSE FOR TROUBLE] Reference

Scavenge jump: A pump that bails fuel residue from the center tank overheats, touching off hot vapors.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Really Happened?] Reference

Like the Asiatic plague exhaled from the vapors of the Ganges, frightful despair stalked over the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

As the day waned, the sinuosities of the forest became more blended; the depth of the valleys was lost in thick vapors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The chemicals have been found, however, in vapors released from microwave popcorn packaging and in the packaging itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our products, ourselves: The chemicals in our bodies] Reference

By 4 p.m., fire officials determined that the vapors were dissipating, and trains were returned to normal speeds, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vapor cloud in Kensington dissipates] Reference

Briefly last week, political hygienists, who strive to perfume the world with campaign-finance reforms, suffered the vapors.    From Wordnik.com.  [KERRY DROPS A GOOD IDEA] Reference

  We swept the rushes from the floor cautiously to the street and slept on our bellies so vapors would not enter our mouths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother's Angels] Reference

But last week Austen's amiable correspondence prompted a burst of speculation and debate that would have given her the vapors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Sense And Sensibility] Reference

Its cybernose, which will appear on handheld devices by next year, has sensors with polymers that swell when exposed to vapors.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Smells A Rat, Etc.] Reference

   Although the DMF starts out in its packet, body heat can vaporize the chemical and toxic vapors can then seep into the leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t get burned by your leather furniture] Reference

But the agency is so concerned about fuel vapors that it has asked the FAA to consider extensive structural modifications for all 747s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bickering Over The Boeing 747] Reference

vapors build up: Fuel vapors, normally released through the wing, are not properly vented, allowing them to heat up to flashpoint -- about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Back To Square One] Reference

Cordelia changing Lear's bandages, centurions changing their minds, and the obscurity of Irish mothers swirling through vapors in silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recipe for the Broken] Reference

The night was draining and he sucked in the hot vapors, hoping it would clean out the ash and fumes undoubtedly toiling deep in his lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Club] Reference

"" My fine friend here, Kirk, as in Captain Kirk from the Starship Enterprise, knows something about spirituality, vapors, souls and such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Soulful Cheese and Melted Needs] Reference