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s prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

Self-impregnation. Darwin.

To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard.

To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." Feltham.

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

ed with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.

ollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

sting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate. [R.] Tatler.

To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Combined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.

Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.

To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize. By carbureting the gas you may use poorer coal. Knight.

Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power. [Written also carburetted.] Carbureted hydrogen gas, any one of several gaseous compounds of carbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas. -- Light carbureted hydrogen, marsh gas,…