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ome meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk. Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. Prof. Wilson.

wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. While our obedience holds. Milton. The rule holds in land as all other commodities. Locke.

Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance. All things in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage. Hooker. I sought no homage from the race that write. Pope.

g through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15º, or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours…

Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

ssolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.

The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak.

n not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. F. W. Robertson.

lity of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

Rude; uncivil; disobedient. [Obs.] -- Im`mo*rig"er*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

her, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience. Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne. Implicit function. (Math.) See under Function.

an impulse; moving; impellent. Poor men! poor papers! We and they Do some impulsive force obey. Prior.

ion of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

Not defective; perfect; complete. "Absolute, indefective obedience." South.

ive; irrespective. That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. R. P. Ward.

ther occurring late in autumn. See under Summer. -- Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia. -- Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.…

vest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden. Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak.

Unequally lobed; cut into lobes of different shapes or sizes.

their faith and practice, if they attend. Attebury. The principle which influenced their obedience has lost its efficacy. Rogers.