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To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aëriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.

One who, or that which, injects.

See under Injector.

An injection succeeding another.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.

To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into. Able to breathe life into a stone. Shak. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7.

A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar. [Written also canula.]

A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema. Clyster pipe, a tube or pipe used for injections.

ing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water.

's-eye (Optics), a lens of short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light. -- Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed by the direct contact of water. -- Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metalli…

An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.

The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit. [R.] Boyle.

lso from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.…

A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.

To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument. Milton.

bustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ig…

The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.