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One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [Obs.] Glanvill.

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. South.

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More.

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. [R.] London Spectator.

Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. [Obs.] Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed.

One who informs, animates, or inspires. [Obs.] Thomson. Nature, informer of the poet's art. Pope.

Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. [Obs.] "Foe not informidable." Milton.

Want of regular form; shapelessness. [Obs.]

Of irregular form; shapeless. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped.

tile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

A light powder used as a substitute for iodoform. It is a compound of iodoform and albumin.

Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible. Joseph Cook.

Having the shape of an isopod; -- said of the larvæ of certain insects.

Having the shape or appearance of a julus or catkin.

Formed like kali, or glasswort.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.

Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.

Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.

Shaped like a bottle or flask; flag-shaped.