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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure. Johnson.

INSTIMULATE v. 2 definitions

Not to stimulate; to soothe; to quiet. [Obs.] Cheyne.

See Exstipulate.

To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

INSULATE v. 3 definitions

detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.

INSULATED p. 3 definitions

Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column. The special and insulated situation of the Jews. De Quincey.

INTERCALATE v. 2 definitions

ween the layers of a regular series of rocks. Beds of fresh-water shells . . . are intercalated and interstratified with the shale. Mantell.

INTERJACULATE v.

To ejaculate parenthetically. [R.] Thackeray.

INTEROSCULATE v. 2 definitions

To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.

INTERPELLATE v.

To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body.

INTERPOLATE v. 3 definitions

intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.

INTERPOLATED a. 3 definitions

Provided with necessary interpolations; as, an interpolated table.

INTERRELATED a.

Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

INTERUNGULAR; INTERUNGULATE a.

Between ungulæ; as, interungular glands.

Unburied. [Obs.]

INVIOLATE; INVIOLATED a. 2 definitions

Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon.

INVIOLATELY adv.

In an inviolate manner.

INVIOLATENESS n.

The state of being inviolate.

INVOLUCELLATE a.

Furnished with involucels.

To make irregular; to disorder. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.