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The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London. De Foe.

Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent.

Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un-.

tegral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.

Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.

The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews. An article on interviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.

The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.

stock. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled. Shak.

A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle. They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation. Burke. Iota subscript (Gr. Gram.), iota written beneath a preceding vowel, as a,, h,, w,, -- done when iota is silent.

e Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of food in Ireland. -- Irish reef, or Irishman's reef (Naut.), the head of a sail tied up. -- Irish stew, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces and stewed.

Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron. Gwilt.

Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. [R.] Woodward.

Also; as an additional article.

se arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles. Carlyle.

mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.

One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings. "One Snug, the joiner." Shak.

An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matt. v. 18. Neither will they bate One jot of ceremony. Shak.

Small particles of ore. Raymond.