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To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal. [R.]

To impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol.

Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.

To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters. Mineral acids (Chem.), inorganic acids, as sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, hydrochloric, acids, etc., as distinguished from the organic acids. -- Mineral blue, the name usually given to azurite, when reduced to an impalpable powder for coloring purposes. -- Mineral candle…

The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.

To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.

cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.

A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

Combined or impregnated with muriatic or hydrochloric acid.

To mingle, saturate, or impregnate, with naphtha.

Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.

To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds.

The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.

The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.

To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.

To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its compounds; as, phosphorated oil.