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A small distance or degree, whether or time Beldame, I think we watched you at an inch. Shak. By inches, by slow degrees, gradually. -- Inch of candle. See under Candle. -- Inches of pressure, usually, the pressure indicated by so many inches of a mercury column, as on a steam gauge. -- Inch of water. See under Wate…

A piece an inch long. By inchmeal, by small degrees; by inches. Shak.

unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum. "The baser scum and inconsiderable dregs of Rome." Stepney. -- In`con*sid"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sid"er*a*bly, adv.

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease. The waters increased and bare up the ark. Gen. vii. 17. He must increase, but I must decrease. John iii. 30. The heavens forbid But that our loves…

In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray.

To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. [Obs.] "News indifferent good." Shak.

y of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened by subsequent experience and experiment. It relates to actual existences, as in physical science or the concerns of life. Logical induction is founded on the necessary law…

An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.

A suffix, used to indicate hydrocarbons of the second degree of unsaturation; i. e., members of the acetyline series; as, hexine, heptine, etc.

In a manner, or to a degree, above estimation; as, things inestimably excellent.

With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification. Inexcusably obstinate and perverse. Jortin.

In an inexpiable manner of degree; to a degree that admits of no atonement.

In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.

Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. Macaulay.

In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.

Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.

By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree.

In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning. Barrow.

; to lodge. [Obs.] When he had brought them into his city And inned them, everich at his degree. Chaucer.

unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.