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Not edited; unpublished; as, an inedited manuscript. T. Warton.

Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.

Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

Unpleassantness; disagreeableness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope.

Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great intrepidity. Addison.

Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.

The third joint of the typical appendages of Crustacea.

The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness.

Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Same as Lepadoid.

The quality or state of being limpid.

The state or quality of being liquid.

The state or quality of being livid.

The quality or state of being lucid.

One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

An old name for a fossil club moss.

A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service; -- so named from the proving grounds at Lydd, England.