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To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.

alled male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.

To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk.

f leather, made originally in Russia but now elsewhere, having a peculiar odor from being impregnated with an oil obtained from birch bark. It is much used in bookbinding, on account of its not being subject to mold, and being proof against insects. -- Russia matting, matting manufactured in Russia from the inner bark…

Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

Producing, or impregnated with, salt. Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.…

To combine or impregnate with a salt.

A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.

Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. [Obs.]

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. Macaulay. Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. Emerson.

To copulate with; to impregnate. [R.] Holland.

tation nucleus (Biol.), the body formed by fusion of the male and female pronucleus in an impregnated ovum. See the Note under Pronucleus. -- Segmentation of the ovum, or Egg cleavage (Biol.), the process by which the embryos of all the higher plants and animals are derived from the germ cell. In the simplest case, th…

Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites.

Partially impregnated with phlogiston.

Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks. Silicated soap, a hard soap containing silicate of soda.

ss of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as, the silicification of wood.