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Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.

y greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere. Drayton.

To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood. While Darwen stream, will blood of Scots imbrued. Milton.

was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

ng with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. Byron.

, impracticable heart Is governed by a dainty-fingered girl. Rowe. Patriotic butloyal men went away disguested afresh with the impracticable arrogance of a sovereign. Palfrey.

burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. A thick of incense went up. Ezek. viii. 11.

To put into harness; to harness. [Obs.] They went to coach and their horse inclose. Chapman.

udes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five. The whole included race, his purposed prey. Milton. The loss of such a lord includes all harm. Shak.

a remainder, the two numbers being said to be incongruous with respect to the third; as, twenty-five are incongruous with respect to four.

The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

f full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

ter death. Bp. Warburton. He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. Spectator.

often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." Owen. This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. Beattie. Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. Mayne.

Mutual communication. Owen.

interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen.

The state of interdigitating; interdigital space. Owen.