Mephitic air (Chem.), carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its
deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
||Me*phi"tis (?), n. [L. mephitis : cf. F. méphitis.] 1. Noxious,
||pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth,
||or other source.