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That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.

a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar. And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard. Thomson.

A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.

The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.

To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.

The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

A small vessel for holding ink, to dip the pen into; also, a device for holding ink and writing materials.

Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv.

To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.

The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc. Ray.

persistent movement. The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables. Woodward.

ignaling adopted by nearly all maritime nations, whereby communication may be had between vessels at sea. -- International copyright. See under Copyright. -- International law, the rules regulating the mutual intercourse of nations. International law is mainly the product of the conditions from time to time of intern…

t, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

se; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.

er Fire, n. -- Gray iron. See Cast iron (above). -- It irons (Naut.), said of a sailing vessel, when, in tacking, she comes up head to the wind and will not fill away on either tack. -- Magnetic iron. See Magnetite. -- Malleable iron (Metal.), iron sufficiently pure or soft to be capable of extension under the hamm…

Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.

Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.