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f another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.

To impregnate with wormwood.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aërate soil; to aërate water.

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. Ure.

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Combined or impregnated with ammonia.

To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.

To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic.

s prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard.

To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." Feltham.

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

ed with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.

ollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

sting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.