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Uninhabited. [Obs.] Brathwait.

An inhabitant. [R.] Derham.

See Inhabitativeness. What the phrenologists call inhabitiveness. Lowell.

A female inhabitant. [R.]

To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder. Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. Bentley.

The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.

Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppr…

A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. McKendrick.

Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv.

The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.

els or on runners, sometimes covered with cloth or leather, and often used as a movable habitation.

Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period.

One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

nscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phonician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).

A female Moabite. Ruth i. 22.

Moabite. Ruth ii. 6.