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Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate. [Obs.] It is naturalor ingenite, which comes by some defect of the organs and overmuch brain. Burton.

An ingenuous or naïve girl or young woman, or an actress representing such a person.

The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining. All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair.

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly. Being required to explane himself, he ingeniously confessed. Ludlow.

The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.

Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity. [Obs.] [Written also ingenie.] Becon.

To cause to germinate.

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal. Sir T. Browne.

That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

The reedbuck of South Africa. [Written also ingali.]

To encircle to gird; to engirt. The wreath is ivy that ingirts our beams. Drayton.

Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns. Ingle nock, the chimney corner. -- Ingle side, Ingle cheek, the fireside.

In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.

To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly. [Obs.] Milton.

Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. Shak. My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. Dryden. Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Gray.

In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.

The state of being inglorious.

To glut. [R.] Ascham.