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To put or insert between other strata.

Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.

The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley.

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

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly. Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4.

A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. It is just the inversion of an act of Parliament; your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the Lords and Commons. Dryden.

The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

The state or quality of being irreversible.

In an irreversible manner.

See 1st Jeer (b).

An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.

The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President (1801-1809), eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort, the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee, refusal to recogn…

A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.

One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

See Raskolnik.

The office or position of a keeper. Carew.