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To impregnate. [Obs.] Fuller.

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

To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Entrance; ingress. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

r mixture; an element; a constituent. By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients. Sir I. Newton. Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids. Arbuthnot.

The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.

Act of entering; entrance. Sir K. Digby.

To render more grievous; to aggravate. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

To groove in; to join in or with a groove. Tennyson.

See Engross.

Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.

A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.

The groin.

Not guilty. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia. Inguinal ring. See Abdominal ring, under Abdominal.

or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf. A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed. Milton.

The act of ingulfing, or the state of being ingulfed.

To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle. Cleveland.

The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed. E. Darwin. He drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine. Bacon.

Tasteless; insipid. Sir T. Browne.