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or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South.

money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn.

With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army. Nine in ten of those who enter the ministry. Swift.

To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.

To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five. The whole included race, his purposed prey. Milton. T…

One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies.

A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.

A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.

tment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad. Milton.

not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.

ausing insanity or madness. [R.] Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner Shak.

A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot.

two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic enterprise.

Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors. Whewell.

hibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl.