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egar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. -- Quick water, quicksilver water. -- Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.

A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.

Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.]

o enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.

ion of the gametophyte; and by the development of seeds. All the Spermatophyta are heterosporous; fertilization of the egg cell is either through a pollen tube emitted by the microspore or (in a few gymnosperms) by spermatozoids. The phrase "flowering plants" is less distinctive than "seed plants," since the conifers,…

Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.

The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.

Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.

An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.

To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth. To strain a point, to make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principl…

To draw or drain. Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. Thomson.

Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil. Dryden.

The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.

A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.

he condition of certain substances, as sulphur, selenium, etc., when condensed from the vaporous state and deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small globules filled with liquid.

Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.

Full of vapors; vaporous.

Full of vapor; vaporous.

Full of vapors; vaporous.