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Driven together or close. Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.

ragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n.

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification. Burke.

Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.

Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete. Boyle.

Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.

Agate jasper. [Obs.]

Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.

The raccoon.

A bare, naked contract, without any consideration. Tomlins.

A kind of black tea.

To darken; to cloud. [Obs.] Boyle.

The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.

Opaque. [R.] Milton. -- O*pa"cous*ness, n. [R.]

Opaque. [Obs.] Sterne.

To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind. [R.] Lamb.

The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.

Pickaback.