Usually means: Burnt, smoky smell from organic matter.
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  1. empyreuma: Collins English Dictionary
  2. empyreuma: Wordnik
  3. empyreuma: Wiktionary
  4. empyreuma: Dictionary.com
  5. Empyreuma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Empyreuma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. empyreuma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Empyreuma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. empyreuma: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. empyreuma: FreeDictionary.org
  11. empyreuma: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. empyreuma: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (empyreuma)

noun:  (obsolete, chemistry) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

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