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Belonging to instillation. [R.]

Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.

Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational. Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures. Fiddes.

Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence.

Tending or serving to intimidate.

g to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

orth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of all I have. Shak.

sing or containing invitations. The "Venite" [Psalm xcv.], which is also called the invitatory psalm. Hook.

Making or containing invocation; invoking.

Exciting; producing irritation; irritating. [R.] Hales.

g or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers. Smart.

Droll; sportive. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals. T. Wharton. Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way. Bp. Hall.

Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution. Ayliffe.

Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.

A collection of knickknacks. Richardson.

periments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.

See Lachrymary, Lachrymatory, Lachrymose.

Lactiferous. [Obs.] "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.