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Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

eptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. Shak.

Majestically. [R.] C. Bronté.

Inferring no consequence. [Obs.]

Not coördinate.

Want of coördination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoördination of muscular movement (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

Not corresponding; disagreeing. [R.] Coleridge.

A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.

The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire. Jer. Taylor.

ted to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. "Inordinate desires." Milton. "Inordinate vanity." Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- In*or"di*nate*ness, n.

Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy. [Obs.] South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.

Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous

The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

ut brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors.

A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Milton.

See Holing.

An ornamental stand or receptacle for plants, flowers, etc., used as a piece of decorative furniture in room.

A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part. Knight.