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Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light. I. Taylor.

Permeation; specif. (Magnetism),

Passing through; permeating. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate. That labyrinth is easily pervaded. Blackstone.

A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.

A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table. The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef. Sir W. Scott.

A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.

A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.

made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.

Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

etallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

A dish of broth, meat, and vegetables prepared by boiling in a pot, -- a dish esp. common among the French. Grant Allen.

A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together.

A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

One who pots meats or other eatables.

The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.

To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]

Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.] Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.