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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,…

d by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

In a concrete manner.

The quality of being concrete.

and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. De Quincey.

A Cretan

A decree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ng a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.

Separately; disjunctively.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

One who ferrets. Johnson.

Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and reënforced concrete.

To teach beforehand. [Obs.]

prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

One who predicts. Boyle.

Protected by turrets. [Obs.] R. Carew.

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

Great. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Combined with hydrogen sulphide.

Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates. [Written also hypercarburetted.]