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Pinched or weakened by hunger. [Obs.] Milton.

The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.

To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.

One who, or that which, imbitters.

The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.

Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.

Incubation. [Obs.] J. Ellis.

Incubation. [R.] Sterne.

Not dubitable or doubtful; too evident to admit of doubt; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; as, an indubitable conclusion. -- n.

The state or quality of being indubitable.

Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt. Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain. Barrow.

To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted. [Obs.] To conceal, or indubitate, his exigency. Sir T. Browne.

Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.

Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.

The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

s permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.

To inhabit. [Obs.]

The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson.

A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.