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In a hostile manner.

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy. [Obs.] A. Seward.

An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal; inelastic; tough.

The quality or state of being inductile.

infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.

An acute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

In an infertile manner.

The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness. The infertility or noxiousness of the soil. Sir M. Hale.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.

e slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton.

The of instilling; also, that which is instilled. Johnson.

An instiller. [R.]

Belonging to instillation. [R.]

One who instills. Skelton.

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. [Written also instilment.]

Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.

The space between two dentils. Gwilt.