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Impregnated with hops.

Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury. [R.]

To impregnate; to make fruitful. [Obs.] His perniciousss words, impregned With reason. Milton. Semele doth Bacchus bear Impregned of Jove. Dr. H. More.

Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.

That which impregnates. [R.] Glanvill.

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

To impregnate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

lean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

To impregnate. [Obs.] Fuller.

The state of being pregnant or impregnated. [Obs.]

To sow; to impregnate. [Obs.]

To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.

To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography. R. Hunt.

Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.

To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals. Creech. Lined gold, gold foil having a lining of another metal.

Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. Boyle.

Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. Boyle.

To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called Mar"ga*ry's flu"id [-riz]).

A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. "Medicated waters." Arbuthnot.