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llow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, m…

g place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.

Impervious to the rays of the sun. "Darksome yew, sunproof." Marston.

xists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.

ine, spruce, or fir, and is used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to water.

Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.