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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,…

Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.

To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

ly, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.

To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. Milton. O, what a world is this, when what…

, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.

To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.] Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. Dryden. At full, when full or complete. Shak. -- Full age (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott. -- Full and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all t…

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. Ure.

fficinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. Ginger beer or ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. -- Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. -- Wi…

To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas. On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water. Barrow.

To impregnate with hops. Mortimer.