Obsolete form of presension.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deodourize

(of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the fal...

(architecture) The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture. / (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.