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Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

eness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine. Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. Pope.

One who implores. [Obs.] Mere implorators of unholy suits. Shak.

That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Im*plor"ing*ly, adv.

Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. [Obs.] Lovelace.

Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] Holland.

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.

Azure-colored; of a bright blue color. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

or an, used with nouns to denote any one of a common or general class. -- Indefinite inflorescence. (Bot.) See Indeterminate inflorescence, under Indeterminate. -- Indefinite proposition (Logic), a statement whose subject is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or nondistribution; as, Man is mortal.…

e when it contains more unknown quantities than there are equations. -- Indeterminate inflorescence (Bot.), a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; -- called also acropetal, botryose, centripetal, and i…

Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet.

Incapable of being explored, searched out, or discovered. Sir G. Buck.

A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. Make there a prick with ink. Chaucer. Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink. Spenser.

ly, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.

To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore. If Dagon be thy god, Go to his temple, invocate his aid. Milton.

y or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing. Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . . Invoke his warlike spirit. Shak.

A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.

. Ischial callosity (Zoöl.), one of the patches of thickened hairless, and often bright-colored skin, on the buttocks of many apes, as the drill.

Having the same tint or color throughout; uniformly or evenly colored.