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Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. [R.] Cotgrave.

Implicitness. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

made the dream. Shak. I have a father's dear impression, And wish, before I fall into my grave, That I might see her married. Ford.

Not amovable or removable. [R.] Palgrave.

Cleaving or sticking like wax. Cotgrave.

The sweetbread of a deer. Cotgrave.

To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. I on thy grave this epitaph incise. T. Carew.

Cut in; carved; engraved.

from engravings, woodcuts, etc. -- India proof (Engraving), a proof impression from an engraved plate, taken on India paper. -- India rubber. See Caoutchouc. -- India-rubber tree (Bot.), any tree yielding caoutchouc, but especially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical l…

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

esoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.

That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

To engrave; to carve; to sculpture. [Obs. & R.] Shak. Which he insculped in two likely stones. Drayton.

An engraving, carving, or inscription. [Obs.] On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.

Engraved. Glover.

To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot.

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.

Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave.