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Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government. [R.] Macaulay.

Exclamation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle. [Written also enclasp.] The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.

Not closing or shutting.

Set; fast; fixed. Dr. John Smith.

Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

Same as Inkle.

The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall.

Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.

In an inclement manner.

Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley.

The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.

The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.

Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively inclined." Cowper.

One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.

Same as Inclined, 3.

An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.

To clasp; to inclose. Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips. Shak.