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in bunion, million, filial, Christian, etc. It enters into several digraphs, as in fail, field, seize, feign. friend; and with o often forms a proper diphtong, as in oil, join, coin.

anchored to the ground. -- Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea. -- Ground ice, anchor ice. -- Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial. -- Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane. -- Ice blink Etym: [D…

Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin. [R.] Chesterfield.

To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.

ot plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.

Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.

e or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly. With slow paces measures back the field, And inches to the walls. Dryden.

ual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income. No fields afford So large an income to the village lord. Dryden.

ly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence. Chesterfield. -- In*con`se*quen"tial*ly, adv.

Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

A current due to variation in the magnetic field surrounding its conductor.

er rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.

dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth.

he mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. Our fields ingrained with blood. Daniel. Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.

- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch. Insomusch as that field is called . . . Aceldama. Acts i. 19. Simonides was an excellent poet, insomuch that he made his fortune by it. L'Estrange.

etween others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. Chesterfield.

ght upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster. Thy smile irradiates yon blue fields. Sir W. Jones.

The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. Beaconsfield.

A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field. [Written also just.] Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament. Milton.

to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. If we lose the field, We can not keep the town. Shak. That I may know what keeps me here with you. Dryden. If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are considering, that would instruct us. Locke.