Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of incrassating or thickening, or the state of becoming incrassated or thickened; inspissation; fatty enlargement.
- noun A swelling out as if from fatness; a thickening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.
- noun The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
process ofthickening . - noun A thickening or
swelling .
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Examples
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It is capable of exerting sufficient friction under the brush to ensure pearly whiteness of the teeth without injuring the enamel, whilst the camphor in it tends to destroy the animalcula in the secretions of the mouth, whose skeletons or remains constitute, as we shall presently see, the incrassation popularly called “tartar.”
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Subsequently the antennae become thickened, two, three, or four of the first joints of the flagellum are fused together, the palm of the hand acquires a deep emargination near its inferior angle, and the intermediate joints of the last pair of feet become swelled into a considerable incrassation.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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