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Infusion   /ɪnfjˈuʒən/   Listen
Infusion

noun
1.
A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water).  Synonym: extract.
2.
The process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water).
3.
(medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force).
4.
The act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality.





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"Infusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... Clear-cakes are made after the same Manner, only mixing white Rasberries with the Goosberries in the Infusion. ...
— The Art of Confectionary • Edward Lambert
... by all my gods that I would not take the offer at any price, but I suppose the infusion of Theism was too homeopathic for ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
... Port, at the "Clergyman's Recreation." Yet, for all that, the book had a rare interest for me, detailing, as it did, the methods of fruit-culture in England a hundred and forty years ago, and showing with nice particularity how the espaliers could be best trained, and how a strong infusion of walnut-leaf tea will destroy all ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 • Various
... shades—who pleaded poverty, pared down prices, and cut jokes in the most companionable manner, though with a turn of tongue that let you know who she was. Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe. A much more exemplary character with an infusion of sour dignity would not have furthered their comprehension of the Thirty-nine Articles, and would have been less ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... Paris, "after repeated trials to reduce a strangulated hernia, injected an infusion of tobacco, and shortly after sent the patient in a carriage to the Westminster Hospital, for the purpose of undergoing the operation; but the unfortunate man arrived only a few minutes before ...
— A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco • A. McAllister


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