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inspissate

[in-spis-eyt] / ɪnˈspɪs eɪt /


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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.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by Horace Waller

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

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

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

Here the Black Country is painted in all its inspissated gloom by a master-hand—sardonic, salubrious, superb....

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

Succinum seu succum.—Dioscorides regarded amber as the inspissated juice of the poplar tree.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

The inspissated gloom of the days of stringency had passed.

From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

When one of its branches is broken, or its bark incised, a milky juice exudes, which becomes inspissated when in contact with the atmosphere.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

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

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.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

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




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