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delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public…

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.

impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation. Heb. vi. 18. Immutable, immortal, infinite, Eternal King. Milton. -- Im*mu"ta*ble*ness, n. -- Im*mu"ta*bly, adv.

solution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

ct is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or nondistribution; as, Man is mortal. -- Indefinite term (Logic), a negative term; as, the not-good.

Incapable of being found out. Bp. Morton.

rass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.

ip of a filament; as, an innate anther. Gray. Innate ideas (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.

Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.] The insulsity of mortal tongues. Milton.

ts; as, a created intelligence. Milton. The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. Tennyson. Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.

ity; spitefulness; virulency. The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, an the mortification of lampoons. Guardian.

ween them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.…

Discord; a clashing of interests. "Endless jarrings and immortal hate." Dryden.

A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc.

ween the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.

To enjoy. [Obs.] See Enjoy. Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss. Milton.

o remain unimpaired. If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep. Mortimer.