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Admitted as a dweller; resident; internal. [R.] "Inmate guests." Milton.

s and practicers of the law of England" which in London exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law students and barristers have their chambers. They are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.

Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.

Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o"dor*ous*ness, n.

Admitting judicial inquiry. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. I. Watts.

One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general (Mil.), a staff officer of an army, whose duties are those of inspection, and embrace…

Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration. Harvey.

Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous

To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.

A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified. Sir M. Hale.

e last of a triplet. Beattie. Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. Mayne.

Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution. "Interchangeable warrants." Bacon.

Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.

The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson.

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

To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever. Pope.

Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system. Carpenter.

To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.