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To impregnate; to make fruitful. [Obs.] His perniciousss words, impregned With reason. Milton. Semele doth Bacchus bear Impregned of Jove. Dr. H. More.

Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.

That which impregnates. [R.] Glanvill.

method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.

To impregnate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies. Our king has all the Indies in his arms. Shak.

Indignation. [Obs.] Spenser.

Affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation. He strides indignant, and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.

Pert. to the Indo-Aryans, or designating, or of, the Aryan languages of India.

To impregnate. [Obs.] Fuller.

The state of being pregnant or impregnated. [Obs.]

A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. Innominate bone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It…

To sow; to impregnate. [Obs.]

ence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior. Their insolent triumph excited . . . indignation. Macaulay.

To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.

Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a steam- engine boiler. The gas used may be a fixed gas, or one deriv…

insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think, interpola…

One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers. Coleman.

To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography. R. Hunt.