(pl. ) of Index

(pl. ) of Index

(pl. ) of Index

(imp. & p. p.) of Index

(n.) One who makes an index.

(a.) Indexical.

(n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo.

(n.) An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

(n. pl.) See Index.

(n. pl.) Discriminating marks; signs; tokens; indications; appearances.

(v. t.) To bury in, or cast into, a ditch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Indite

(n.) One who indites.

(n.) A complex, nitrogenous radical, C8H5NO, regarded as the essential nucleus of indigo.

(n.) Natural disposition; natural quality or abilities.

(n.) A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white.

(adv.) Within the house; -- usually separated, in doors.

(v. t.) To cover the back of; to load or burden.

(v. t.) To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

(v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).

(v. t.) To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid.

(a.) Drawn in.

(imp. & p. p.) of Induce

(n.) One who, or that which, induces or incites.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indue

(v. t.) To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

(v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;

(v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.

(v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

(v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.

(n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.

(n.) A duty levied on all importations.

(pl. ) of Indusium

(imp. & p. p.) of Indwell

(v. t. & i.) To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.

(v. t.) To inter.

(adv.) Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly.

(a.) Unequal; uneven; various.

(n.) That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae.

(n.) Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness.

(n.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

(adv.) Without activity; sluggishly.

(a.) Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.

(v. i.) To exist within; to dwell within.

(n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

(n.) The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.

(n.) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

(n.) A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.

(n.) A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.

(v. t.) To stuff; to swell.

(a.) Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.

(v. t.) See Enfeoff.

(a.) Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity.

(n.) One who does not believe in the prevailing religious faith; especially, one who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.

(imp. & p. p.) of Infix

(v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

(v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.

(v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

(v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.

(v. t.) To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

(v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

(p. a.) Blown in; inflated.

(v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.

(v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.

(v. t.) To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

(v. i.) To expand; to fill; to distend.

(v. t.) To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

(v. t.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

(v. t.) To modulate, as the voice.

(v. t.) To incarnate.

(v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal.

(v. t.) To pour in; to infuse.

(a.) Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

(v. t.) To break; to infringe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Infuse

(n.) One who, or that which, infuses.

(n.) See Ingeny.

(a.) Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate.

(n. pl.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.

(v. t.) To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly.

(v. t. & i.) See Engorge.

(v. t.) To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something.

(v. t.) To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

(n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ischium or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic.

(n.) The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.

(n.) One of the pleurae of insects.

(n.) A retention or suppression of urine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands.

(v. t.) To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.

(v. t.) To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

(v. t.) To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together. [R.] Cf. Impasto.

(n.) The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.

(v. t.) To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

(v. t.) To insulate. See Insulate.

(v. t.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.

(a.) Fearless.

(v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

(v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

(v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

(v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.

(n.) Hindrance; impeachment.

(v. t.) To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls.

(v. t.) To decorate as with pearls or with anything resembling pearls.

(imp. & p. p.) of Impede

(v. t.) To bring into peril; to endanger.

(n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

(n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.

(n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.

(n.) The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

(n.) An impious act; an act of wickednes.

(v. t.) To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.

(a.) Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.

(n.) Equal law or right; equal distribution of rights and privileges; similarity.

(a.) Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Issue

(n.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.

(n.) Pronunciation of / (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reu/hlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism.

(n.) One who is in favor of itacism.

(pl. ) of Italic

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Itch

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Item

(v. t.) To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad.

(a.) Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo.

(a.) Uttered or done again; repeated.

(v. t.) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.

(adv.) By way of iteration.

(n.) One of the Iulidae, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus.

(pl. ) of Ivory

(n.) A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodidae.

(v. t.) To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.

(v. t.) To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

(v. t.) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.

(v. i.) To sue at law.

(a.) Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.

(v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought.

(v. i.) To entreat; to beg; to prey.

(n.) Imploration.

(imp. & p. p.) of Imply

(imp. & p. p.) of Impose

(n.) One who imposes.

(v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping.

(v. t.) See Empower.

(v. t.) To impregnate; to make fruitful.

(n.) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.

(n.) A device. See Impresa.

(v. t.) To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

(v. t.) To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

(v. t.) Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

(n.) To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.

(v. i.) To be impressed; to rest.

(n.) The act of impressing or making.

(n.) A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.

(n.) Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

(n.) A device. See Impresa.

(n.) The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

(n.) To advance on loan.

(v. t.) A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.

(v. t.) To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

(v. t.) To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).

(v. t.) To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.

(v. t.) Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.

(v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.

(v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.

(v. t.) To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.

(v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.

(v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.

(v. i.) To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.

(v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.

(v. i.) To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.

(a.) That which is within; the interior.

(v. t.) To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.

(n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

(n.) A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone.

(n.) In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words /, /, / /, /, Jesus, Christ, Son of God, Savior.

(n.) Same as Ichthus.

(a.) Having icicles attached.

(n.) The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.

(n.) The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.

(v. t.) To form an image or likeness of.

(n.) A remedy for the jaundice.

(a.) Alt. of Icterical

(a.) The jaundice.

(adv.) In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.

(a.) Identical.

(v. t.) See Entitle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Intone

(n.) Idiocy.

(a.) Alt. of Idiotical

(n.) Idiocy.

(n.) Idleness.

(a.) Entering; penetrating.

(n.) One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station.

(v. t.) See Entreat.

(a.) Idolatrous.

(n.) The worship of idols.

(n.) A worshiper of idols.

(v. t.) To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

(v. t.) To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.

(v. i.) To practice idolatry.

(a.) Idolatrous.

(n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

(a.) Of or belonging to idyls.

(a.) Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.

(a.) Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ignite

(n.) One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.

(a.) Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.

(a.) Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.

(a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.

(v. t.) To make ignoble.

(adv.) In an ignoble manner; basely.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ignore

(a.) Same as Iguanoid.

(v. i.) To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.

(v. t.) To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.

(v. t.) To enter by force; to invade.

(v. t.) The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.

(v. t.) To inclose as in a trunk; to incase.

(v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

(v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.

(v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack.

(a.) Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.

(v. t.) To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.

(v. i.) To be or to become intwined.

(v. t.) To twist into or together; to interweave.

(a.) Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.

(n.) A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inure

(imp. & p. p.) of Inurn

(a.) Useless; unprofitable.

(imp. & p. p.) of Invade

(n.) The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.

(n.) Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.

(n.) Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Illude

(imp. & p. p.) of Illume

(n.) One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.

(a.) Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

(a.) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.

(a.) A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.

(n.) Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.

(v. t.) To make or render invalid or infirm.

(v. t.) To classify or enroll as an invalid.

(v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.

(n.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

(a.) Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

(a.) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.

(a.) Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x.

(n.) That which is inverse.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Image

(n.) The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

(n.) Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

(n.) The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

(n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

(v. t.) To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

(v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.

(v. t.) To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.

(v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

(v. t.) To invigorate.

(a.) Untrodden.

(imp. & p. p.) of Invite

(n.) One who, or that which, invites.

(n.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.

(n.) The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.

(v. t.) To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.

(imp. & p. p.) of Invoke

(v. t.) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

(v. t.) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

(v. t.) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

(v. t.) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

(v. t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

(v. t.) To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

(v. t.) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

(v. t.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

(a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

(a.) Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward.

(adv.) See Inward.

(v. t.) To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.

(v. t.) To encircle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Iodize

(n.) One who, or that which, iodizes.

(n.) Hippocras.

(a.) Irascible; choleric.

(n.) That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow.

(n.) A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmium, it is the heaviest substance known, its specific gravity being 22.4. Symbol Ir. Atomic weight 192.5.

(v. t.) To point or tip with iridium, as a gold pen.

(v. t.) To make iridescent; as, to iridize glass.

(v. i.) To think; to suppose.

(pl. ) of Imago

(v. t.) To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce.

(imp. & p. p.) of Imbibe

(n.) One who, or that which, imbibes.

(v. t.) See Emblaze.

(a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.

(a.) Weary; vexed; uneasy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Iron

(n.) The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.

(n.) The clothes ironed.

(a.) Resembling iron, as in taste.

(n.) One who uses irony.

(v. t.) To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

(v. t.) To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove.

(v. t. & i.) See Embower.

(v. t.) To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure.

(v. t.) To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.

(v. i.) To sink to the state of a brute.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbue

(v. t.) To supply or stock with money.

(v. t.) To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

(v. t.) To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.

(v. t.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.

(a.) Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.

(v. t.) To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse.

(v. i.) To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.

(n.) Want of worth; demerit.

(a.) Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

(v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

(v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

(v. t.) To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.

(a.) Unmixed.

(a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Immure

(v. t.) To paint; to adorn with colors.

(imp. & p. p.) of Impale

(v. t.) To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

(n.) An introduction.

(n.) The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.

(n.) The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.

(n.) The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.

(n.) A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.

(v. t.) To impel; to incite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Impute

(n.) One who imputes.

(n.) Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness.

(n.) Want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.

(n.) An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world.

(v. t.) To inaugurate.

(a.) Blown in or into.

(a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

(a. & adv.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.

(n.) Alt. of Inbreaking

(v. t.) To produce or generate within.

(v. t.) To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.

(a.) Burnt in; ineffaceable.

(n.) A bursting in or into.

(imp. & p. p.) of Incage

(imp. & p. p.) of Incase

(v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.

(v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.

(n.) To offer incense to. See Incense.

(n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense.

(n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.

(n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.

(n.) Also used figuratively.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inch

(v. t.) See Enchant.

(v. t.) See Enchase.

(v. t.) To put into a chest.

(n.) The sweetbread of a deer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Incise

(a.) Cut in; carved; engraved.

(a.) Having deep and sharp notches, as a leaf or a petal.

(n.) One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.

(a.) Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Incite

(n.) One who, or that which, incites.

(a.) Uncivil; rude.

(v. t.) To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle.

(a.) Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

(v. i.) To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

(v. i.) Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.

(v. i.) To bow; to incline the head.

(v. t.) To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.

(v. t.) To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.

(v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.

(n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

(v. t.) To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls.

(v. t.) To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note.

(v. t.) To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.

(v. t.) To put into harness; to harness.

(v. t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

(v. t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.

(v. t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.

(n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example.

(n.) One who comes in.

(n.) One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc.

(v. t.) To adorn with a crest.

(v. t.) To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar.

(v. t.) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.

(n.) A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night.

(n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare.

(n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.

(v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

(n.) A nitrogenous compound, C7H6N2, analogous to indol, and produced from a diazo derivative or cinnamic acid.

(a.) Dyed with grain, or kermes.

(a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.

(n.) An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.

(v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes.

(v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.

(v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.

(a.) Ingrateful.

(n.) An ungrateful person.

(v. t.) To engrave.

(v. t.) To bury.

(v. t.) To make great; to enlarge; to magnify.

(n.) The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.

(n.) Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.

(n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

(v. i.) To go in; to enter.

(v. t.) See Engross.

(v. t.) To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

(v. i.) To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inhale

(n.) One who inhales.

(n.) An apparatus for inhaling any vapor or volatile substance, as ether or chloroform, for medicinal purposes.

(n.) A contrivance to filter, as air, in order to protect the lungs from inhaling damp or cold air, noxious gases, dust, etc.; also, the respiratory apparatus for divers.

(v. t.) See Enhance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inhere

(v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.

(v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.

(v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.

(v. t.) To put in possession of.

(v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.

(v. t.) To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

(v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.

(a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

(a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inhume

(a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

(a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

(n.) The first letter of a word or a name.

(v. t.) To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.

(n.) Initiation; beginning.

(v. t.) To place in jelly.

(v. t.) To join; to unite.

(v. t.) To disjoint; to separate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Injure

(n.) One who injures or wrongs.

(n.) Injury; invasion of another's rights.

(n.) A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish.

(n.) A small bottle of horn or other material formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case for writing materials.

(a.) Learned; pedantic; affected.

(n.) A hint; an intimation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inlace

(n.) One who inlays, or whose occupation it is to inlay.

(n.pl.) The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc.

(adv.) More within.

(v. t.) To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate.

(n.) The yard adjoining an inn.

(n.) A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

(n.) Inquiry; quest; search.

(n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death.

(n.) A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.

(n.) The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.

(v. t.) To disquiet.

(v. i.) To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.

(v. i.) To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination.

(v. t.) To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.

(v. t.) To call or name.

(n.) The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

(n.) Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries.

(n.) Insanity.

(v. t.) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

(v. t.) To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

(v. t.) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.

(v. t.) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.

(v. t.) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue.

(v. i.) To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire.

(v. i.) To breathe; to blow gently.

(v. t.) To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.

(v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.

(v. t.) See Enstamp.

(a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

(a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.

(a.) Present; current.

(adv.) Instantly.

(a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.

(a.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.

(v. t.) To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.

(adv.) In the place or room; -- usually followed by of.

(v. t.) To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.

(adv.) Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of.

(v. t.) To steep or soak; to drench.

(v. t.) To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.

(v. t.) To make to understand; to instruct.

(v. t.) To store up; to inclose; to contain.

(v. t.) To style.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.

(n.) An islander.

(v. i.) To be of use to an end; to serve.

(n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

(v. t.) To hide in a shell.

(a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.

(a.) Insipid; dull; stupid.

(adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.

(n.) A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

(n.) Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.

(imp. & p. p.) of Insure

(n.) One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

(v. t.) To strengthen, as with sinews; to invigorate.

(a.) Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.

(a.) Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.

(pl. ) of Intaglio

(n.) A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

(v. t.) To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means.

(v. t.) To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.

(a.) Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

(a.) Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: (a) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. (b) Keen; biting; as, intense cold. (c) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. (d) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. (e) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light.

(adv.) In sooth; truly.

(v. t.) To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.

(v. t.) To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.

(v. t.) Inspection.

(n.) Inherence; inherent existence.

(n.) A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.