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The larval stage of a tapeworm (Tænia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.

A salt of cyanuric acid.

A cyanide. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.

an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.

Behavior. [Obs.] Spenser.

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton.

A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.

See Inure.

An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive subatance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulnunates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid.

A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana.

Ill-bred. Shak.

Uncivil; unpolished; rude. M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n.

Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb. The sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned. Shak.