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In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office. [U.S.]

To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.

The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.

One who interferes.

By or with interference.

nstrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- called also refractometer.

An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.

The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President (1801-1809), eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort, the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee, refusal to recogn…

A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.

Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.

Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.

Bearing, or composed of, lamellæ, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

Having a structure consisting of laminæ, or thin layers.

Bearing a lance.

Bearing or producing wool.

Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.

Producing, or bringing, laurel.

Deadly; bringing death or destruction.