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Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

reatest facility for the greatest number of people." The word "Ido" means in the language itself "offspring." The official name is: "Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido)." --I"dism (#), n. -- I"dist (#), n.

ravity; iniquity; wrong; evil. Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill. Dryden.

mplicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding. Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio. Carlyle.

, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself Shak.

ving no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- In*cip"i*ent*ly, adv.

tion, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.

To pass; to enter. [Obs.] Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye. South.

ight line. Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite; though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so to human comprehension. Spectator.

One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance. "Indistinct as water is in water." Shak.

In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself. "Individually or collectively." Burke. How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it Hooker.

Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself. [Obs.] Drayton.

To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement. The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables. Woodward.

That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example. Most remarkable instances of suffering. Atterbury.

Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.

instruct. [Obs.] If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself. Dr. H. More.