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A salt of hyponitrous acid.

Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

developed; unripeness; incompleteness. When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird.

Want of worth; demerit. [R.] Suckling.

Unmerited. [Obs.] Charles I.

Undeserving. [Obs.] Milton.

Inequality; disparity; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, number, etc. Milton.

Want of prosperity. [Obs.]

uality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.

Without authority; not authoritative.

Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [R.] Coleridge.

Uncharitable; unfeeling. [Obs.] Shak.

Want of charity. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness. Harvey.

A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste. Malcom.

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.

Within the territory of a state. Story.

To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a noble…

The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone.