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To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate. Beattie.

Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained. They were told to expect, upon the fall of Walpole, a large and lucrative indemnity for their pretended wrongs. Ld. Mahon.

An accusation in general; a formal accusation. Bill of indictment. See under Bill.

n is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation. He strides indignant, and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.

by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal. By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met this crown. Shak.

Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. [R.] The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet.

A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.

To communicate a knowledge of facts to,by way of accusation; to warn against anybody. Tertullus . . . informed the governor against Paul. Acts xxiv. 1.

One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer. [Obs. or R.] It was the last evidence of the kind; the informant was hanged. Burke.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

ributes of an insentient, inert substance. Reid. But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn. This austere insociable life. Shak.

ral; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices. The penury of insular conversation. Johnson.

The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, 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; neutrali…

Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor.

Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational. Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures. Fiddes.

Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.

Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent. "Intermissive miseries." Shak. "Intermissive wars." Howell.

To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument. Milton.