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Pervious. [Obs.] -- Per"vi*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Chapman.

aker seek. Milton. O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty ! Shak. And shades impervious to the proud world's glare. Keble.

Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.

ocess of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. [Poetic] Milton.

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. Nares.

ow 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, mad…

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.

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

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

Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

he property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

Transparent; pervious to the sight. [R.] "The wide, transpicuous air." Milton.

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