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The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

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

ent. [Obs.] Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. Milton.

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.

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

Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon. The specimens found . . . are completely silicified. Say.

Combined or impregnated with silicon. [Obsoles.] Siliciureted hydrogen. (Chem.) Hydrogen silicide. [Obs.]

e manufacture of alum. -- Bituminous slate (Min.), a soft species of sectile clay slate, impregnated with bitumen. -- Hornblende slate (Min.), a slaty rock, consisting essentially of hornblende and feldspar, useful for flagging on account of its toughness. -- Slate ax or axe, a mattock with an ax end, used in shapin…

To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices. In the spiced Indian air, by night. Shak.

To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium). Stibiated tartar. See Tartar emetic, under Tartar.

A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.

Power of resisting attacks; impregnability. "Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn." Shak.

Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth. In the suds, in turmoil or difficulty. [Colloq.] Beau. & Fl.

To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. "When I sugar my liquor." G. Eliot.

The act or process of combining or impregnating with sulphur or its compounds; also, the state of being so combined or impregnated.