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A choking coil.

See Endurance.

The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. The notorious inelegance of her figure. T. Hook.

bitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

See Enhance.

The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

Want or neglect of observance. Bacon.

Inquiry. [Obs.] Latimer.

The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.

Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern.

or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott.

takes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.

One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] Dryden. hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.

or passions. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer. Taylor. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. Milton.

Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Entreaty. [Obs.] Holland.

The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions. J. J. Sylvester.

Want of vigilance; neglect of watching; carelessness.

The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light.

Irrelevancy.