inspissate
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In these troughs the eggs, broken and stirred with shovels, remain exposed to the sun till the oily part, which swims on the surface, has time to inspissate.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
A spring of brine rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market.
The juice inspissate, drunk with wine, helps ague.
From Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
For a minute or two he lay motionless trying to connect the noise with the present, trying to separate his faculties from the inspissate air that seemed to be throttling them.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
He moved nearer to the house and stood beneath Pauline's window; surely she was leaning out; surely that was her shadow tremulous on the inspissate air.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
The "inspissated gloom" of his work, its tenebrous gulfs and musical vertigoes are true indices of his morbid pathology.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
Sap′-bee′tle a beetle which feeds on sap; Sap′-col′our, a vegetable juice inspissated by slow evaporation, for the use of painters.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Much mucus, of rather a saline taste, and less inspissated than usual, is evacuated from the fauces by hawking, owing to the deficient absorption of the thinner parts of it.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The inspissated gloom of the days of stringency had passed.
From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick
Catechu, the inspissated juice of a plant or plants, which comes to us from India, also gives rich and useful permanent browns of various shades.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
To save ourselves from absurdity, and still more to save our painters from inspissating that trickle of fatuity which wells from heads swollen with hot air, critics should set themselves to check this nasty malady.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
Who is not familiar with those little flocks of victims clattering and shuffling through the galleries, inspissating the gloom of the museum atmosphere?
From Art by Clive Bell
That chiefly used as East Indian kino, is an extract formed by inspissating a decoction of the branches and twigs of the gambler plant.
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