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Impregnated with hops.

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

Impregnable. [Obs.]

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.

Incapable of being subdued by force; impregnable; unconquerable. Burke. A fortress, inexpugnable by the arts of war. Milman.

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.

To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury; to mercurialize. [R.]

Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. [R.]