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A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.

Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.

Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.

Impregnating to the full; saturating.

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. Macaulay. Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. Emerson.

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.

and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandly, or the like. Ex. viii. 17 (Douay version).

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.

A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Burrill.

become covered with scum. Also used figuratively. Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over. A. K. H. Boyd.

The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).

Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land. Sea-coal facing (Founding), facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.

To copulate with; to impregnate. [R.] Holland.