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Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore. [R.]

evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.

Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

Thick or thickened; inspissated. Greenhill.

To intensify. [R.] Emerson.

Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. W. Phillips.

Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.

A manganate. [Obs.]

The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.

Pierced at the apex.

Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.

hrob, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin.

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor. As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye. R. Hooke.

Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [R.] Baxter.

Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened. [R.] The spissated juice of the poppy. Bp. Warburton.

Of or pertaining to the Tænioglossa.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

To pour out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Cudworth.

To caper or frolic. [Obs.]