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The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

To convert into a stony substance; to petrity. [R.] Bacon.

A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

zed structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.

A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

ving perception, or the power of perception. The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance. Reid. But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.

The substance or body that insulates; a nonconductor.

ect. "That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious empire." De Quincey. Two distinct substances, the soul and body, go to compound and integrate the man. South.

Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. Milton.

Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.

Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.

Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative.

Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance.

nt; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke.

cating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men ar…

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.

A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.