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The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah.…

A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely. Goldsmith.

form and nobleness of mind. Shak. This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea. P. Browne.

rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power. -- Idle wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution. -- In idle, in vain. [Obs.] "God saith, thou shalt not take the na…

e like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility. Goldsmith.

Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.

The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.

Set; fast; fixed. Dr. John Smith.

harmony or suitableness of which the taste and experience of men takes cognizance. C. J. Smith. Incongruous numbers (Arith.), two numbers, which, with respect to a third, are such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder, the two numbers being said to be incongruous with respect to the third;…

Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving. "Irregular incuse square." Dr. W. Smith.

direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. Goldsmith.

be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago. A. Smith.

Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.

o an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. Blackstone.

itution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.

Patchwork. [Obs.] Dr. J. Smith.

Between centers. Intercentral nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which transmit impulses between nerve centers, as opposed to peripheral fibers, which convey impulses between peripheral parts and nerve centers.