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Having no backbone; invertebrate.

Old; long-established. [Obs.] It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon.

In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.

Inveteracy. Sir T. Browne.

give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury.

To breed; to nourish. [R.] W. Montagu.

Having an involucre; involucred.

Invulnerable.

Angry; incensed; enraged. [Recent] The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. Thackeray. Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. Dickens.

To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew. [Obs.]

To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice. Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared. Milton.

To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.

mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.]

A salt of lauric acid.

Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother. The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother. Alford.…

f polarization towards the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc. [Written also lævogyrate.]

om restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.