infiltration

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INFILTRA'TION, noun The act or process of entering the pores or cavities of a body. 1. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Calcarious infiltrations, filling the cavities of other stones.
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