Inspissate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inspissate \In*spis"sate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inspissated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Inspissating}.] [L. inspissatus, p. p. of
     inspissare to thicken; pref. in- + spissare to thicken, fr.
     spissus thick.]
     To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by
     evaporation.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inspissate \In*spis"sate\, a. [L. inspissatus, p. p.]
     Thick or thickened; inspissated. --Greenhill.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inspissate
       v 1: make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour"
            [syn: {thicken}]
       2: make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the
          tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: {thicken}] [ant: {thin}]
       3: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg
          yolk will inspissate" [syn: {thicken}] [ant: {thin}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "inspissate":
     beat up, cake, caked, cakey, churn, clabber, clabbered, clot,
     clotted, clump, cluster, coagulate, coagulated, colloid,
     colloidize, concrete, congeal, congealed, cream, curd, curded,
     curdle, curdled, emulsify, emulsionize, fatten, gel, gelatinate,
     gelatinize, gelatinized, grow thick, grumous, incrassate,
     inspissated, jell, jelled, jellied, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper,
     lump, lumpish, lumpy, set, thick, thicken, thickened, whip