Inspissate definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary INSPIS'SATE, v.t. [L ... or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" [syn: thicken, inspissate] 2: make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 3: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] Merriam Webster's transitive verb (-sated; -sating) ...
... interstices; as, to thicken cloth. 2. To make concrete; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint, mortar or a liquid. 3. To ... 2005) v 1: make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 2: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 3: make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" [syn: thicken, inspissate] Merriam Webster's verb (thickened; thickening) Date: 14th century ...
... Applied to other substances, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate,, coagulate; as in the concretion of blood. CONCRETE, v.t ... body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of blood. ``The blood of ... of oak, heavy, horny, impenetrable, impermeable, incrassate, individual, indurate, inner, inspissate, intimate, iron, iron-hard, ironlike, jam-packed, jammed, jell, jellify ...
... blood. 2. To make torpid; as stiffening grief. 3. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste ... Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. --Shak. 2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste ...
... thin] v 1: lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant: inspissate, thicken] 2: make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant: inspissate, thicken] 3: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution ...
... sense of the word). Specifically: (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. (b) To make close; to fill ... glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, incrassate, inspissate, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lumpish, lumpy, mucilaginous, pasty, ropy, slabby ...