ingrain

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To fix deeply or indelibly, as in the mind.
• transitive verb Archaic To dye or stain into the fiber of.
• adjective Deep-seated; ingrained.
• adjective Made of predyed fibers; thoroughly dyed.
• adjective Made of fiber or yarn dyed before weaving. Used especially of rugs.
• noun Yarn or fiber dyed before manufacture.
• noun An ingrain rug or carpet.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To dye with grain or the scarlet dye produced by the kermes-insect; hence, from the permanence and excellence of this dye, to dye in any deep, permanent, or enduring color.
• To dye in the grain or raw material before manufacture.
• Hence To work into the natural texture; imbue thoroughly; impregnate the whole substance or nature of, as the mind.
• To lay on, as color.
• Synonyms Ingrained, Inbred, Inborn, etc. See inherent.
• Dyed with grain or kermes. See grain, 11.
• Dyed in the yarn or thread before manufacture: said of a textile fabric.
• Belonging to the fabric from the beginning; imparted to it in the thread or yarn: said of a color used in dyeing.
• noun A yarn or fabric dyed with fast colors before manufacture.
• noun A quarter of a chaldron of coals given in excess of the measure when the total exceeds 5 chaldrons.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
• adjective obsolete Dyed with grain, or kermes.
• adjective Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
• adjective a double or two-ply carpet.
• adjective a three-ply carpet.
• transitive verb To dye with or in grain or kermes.
• transitive verb To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
• transitive verb To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb thoroughly work in
• verb produce or try to produce a vivid impression of