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Star-read :: Starproof (a.) Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm..

Pervious :: Pervious (a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil..

Impenetrable :: Impenetrable (a.) Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield..

Gastight :: Gastight (a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Pervious :: Pervious (a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision..

Deafen :: Deafen (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc..

Opaqueness :: Opaqueness (n.) The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity.

Impermeable :: Impermeable (a.) Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run..

Perviousness :: Perviousness (n.) The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass..

Waterproof :: Waterproof (v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc..

Hepatization :: Hepatization (n.) Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air..

Imperviable :: Imperviable (a.) Not pervious; impervious.

Adiathermic :: Adiathermic (a.) Not pervious to heat.

Opaque :: Opaque (a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance..

Puddle :: Puddle (v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water..

Puddling :: Puddling (n.) The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material..

Pervious :: Pervious (a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading.

Transcalent :: Transcalent (a.) Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat..

Tan :: Tan (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water..

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