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Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air. -- Im*per"me*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*per"me*a*bly, adv.

That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.

An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

Induction pipe, port, or valve, a pipe, passageway, or valve, for leading or admitting a fluid to a receiver, as steam to an engine cylinder, or water to a pump. -- Magnetic induction, the action by which magnetic polarity is developed in a body susceptible to magnetic effects when brought under the influence of a ma…

The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak. One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water. Coxe.

The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion. [Obs.] "Baptism by infusion." Jortin.

compounds to ingredients. Sir I. Newton. Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids. Arbuthnot.

dy present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.

To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.

The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. Make there a prick with ink. Chaucer. Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink. Spenser.

A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

The quality or state of being insoluble or not dissolvable, as in a fluid.

To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.

The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.

Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.

Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.