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The peony root has been much commended, . . . and yet has been by many found ineffectual. Boyle.

ving power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent. Boyle. The authority of Parliament must become inefficacious . . . to restrain the growth of disorders. Burke.

Having no energy; sluggish. [R.] Boyle.

Inherent; innate; indwelling. Boyle.

riority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.

Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.

The quality or state of being inflammable; inflammability. Boyle.

, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle.

To chill; to make cold; to cool. [Obs.] Boyle.

The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. [Obs.] Boyle.

The quality or state of being an ingredient or component part. Boyle.

of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. "Inky blots." Shak. "Its inky blackness." Boyle.

occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.

Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate. Boyle.

the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.

The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility. Boyle.

ct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.

Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.…

Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M. Hale.

Intemperateness. [Obs.] Boyle.