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The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.

from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. Brande & C.

To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

ent of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury.

ning to, or derived from, indigo. Indigo berry (Bot.), the fruit of the West Indian shrub Randia aculeata, used as a blue dye. -- Indigo bird (Zoöl.), a small North American finch (Cyanospiza cyanea). The male is indigo blue in color. Called also indigo bunting. -- Indigo blue. (a) The essential coloring material of…

To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

eakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure. "Inexpressible grandeur." Blair. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood. Milton.

Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.

e beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art. The infancy and the grandeur of Rome. Arbuthnot.

fers from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.

icularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.

Insatiableness. T. Grander.

acts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper.

s of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.

The act of burning or branding. [Obs.] T. Adams.

nvoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing. Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . . Invoke his warlike spirit. Shak.

al, though appearing entirely unlike, are completely isagelous. Bacon The complementary strands have isagelous sequences. J. D. Watson. -- Isagel I*sag"e*lous (i*sâg"ê*lûs), a. Etym: [Is- + Gr. a`gelos information.]

To make a note or memorandum of. I have itemed it in my memory. Addison.

An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves, from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance. In its action it resembles atropine.

One who jots down memoranda.