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Enchanting. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

ight, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.

Uncultivated. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Defenseless. [Obs.] The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.

n the West Indies. (b) See China pink, under China. -- Indian pipe (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb (Monotropa uniflora), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. -- Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to severa…

To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.

tic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.

The liquid extract obtained by this process. Sips meek infusion of a milder herb. Cowper.

To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. [Obs.] Fotherby.

To swallow up, as in a gulf. Fotherby.

of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary. Some initiatory treatises in the law. Herbert. Two initiatory rites of the same general import can not exist together. J. M. Mason.

State of being innumerable. Fotherby.

Tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Insatiably. Sir T. Herbert.

The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [Obs.] Coxe. The medicating and insuccation of seeds. Evelyn.

The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaëlis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the basta…

A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle. Dr. Prior.

Ironical. Sir T. Herbert.

An herb of the Mint family (Sideritis), supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.

A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the Isatis tinctoria, yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad.