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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.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. Spenser.

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

ought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

es only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

urity; shield. Let us be backed with God and with the seas, Which he hath given for fence impregnable. Shak. A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath. Addison.

The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same b…

the soul; the corporeal person. As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable. Shak.

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.

An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

gly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.

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…

Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas. [Obs.]

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.