inspissated

• They may be very gently pressed with the fingers at first to remove the clots--inspissated pus--but after this the orifice is simply to be kept open by the introduction of a clean probe, should it be disposed to heal too soon. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• But I say--inspissated juice is good, isn't it Do go on telling me, Bob. —  The Black Bar
• It was recommended by Baron Storsch, of Berlin, as a very great antiscorbutic; but we did not find that it had much of this quality For the inspissated juice of wort and beer we were indebted to Mr Pelham, secretary to the commissioners of the victualling office. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
• In this way, doubtless, some of those bodies have been inspissated or reduced to a fixed coal, while others, at a little distance, have retained most of their volatile parts We cannot doubt of this distilling operation in the mineral regions, when we consider that in most places of the earth we find the evident effects of such distillation of oily substances in the naphta and petroleum that are constantly emitted along with water in certain springs. —  Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4)
• In the description of night in Macbeth the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness--inspissated gloom After Boswell's marriage he disappeared for some time from London, and his correspondence with Johnson dropped, as he says, without coldness, from pure procrastination. —  Samuel Johnson

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