Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Concreting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Concrete \Con*crete"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Concreted}; p. pr &
vb. n. {Concreting}.]
To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or
solid body.
Note: Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to
indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard
body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal,
thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of
blood. ``The blood of some who died of the plague could
not be made to concrete.'' --Arbuthnot.
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