inspissate
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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
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
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
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.
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
Aloes, al′ōz, a purgative bitter drug, the inspissated juice of the leaves of several almost tree-like species of aloe.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Bile of an ox inspissated, and made into pills; 20 grains to be taken before dinner and supper.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The inspissated juice of two other species of Euphorbia, Birgut and Anderfa, serves as a drastic purgative.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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
It is seldom larger than a pea, and contains a pultaceous mass like inspissated pus.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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
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
That chiefly used as East Indian kino, is an extract formed by inspissating a decoction of the branches and twigs of the gambler plant.
