carburet

Etymology
Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during amid-19th century. .

Noun

 * 1)  A carbide.

Verb

 * 1)  To react with carbon.
 * 2)  To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.
 * 3) * Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe a bisulphuret of carbon.
 * William Benson Stones, an 1850 patent
 * 1)  To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
 * 2)  To equip with a carburetor.