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A raised work like a bench. [Obs.] Parkhurst.

A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.

Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [Obs.] Johnson.

Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

The state of being itchy.

See Ianthina.

A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office.

The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.

Knowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

s diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers.

Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.

See Legislatature, below.

See Legislature, below.

Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

In a languishing manner.

The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.

A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [Usually in pl.]

The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.