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agreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition. A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. Southey.

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay.

nity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.

ow or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.

aceful; degrading. Chaucer. Counts it scorn to draw Comfort indign from any meaner thing. Trench.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of an indigo solution, as in volumetric analysis. Ure.

dulgence in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence of all pain. Trench.

s 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 laws of thought; philosophical inducti…

Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

To strengthen, as with sinews; to invigorate. [Obs.] All members of our cause, . . . That are insinewed to this action. Shak.

Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

To intensify; to strengthen. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Magnetism may be intended and remitted. Sir I. Newton.

One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.

Strength; health. [Obs.]

vestment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.

To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury.

Strength; power; firmness; inflexibility; as, to rule with a rod of iron. Bar iron. See Wrought iron (below). -- Bog iron, bog ore; limonite. See Bog ore, under Bog. -- Cast iron (Metal.), an impure variety of iron, containing from three to six percent of carbon, part of which is united with a part of the iron, as a…

In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reënforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

ces, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged vine leaves' shade." Trench. -- Jag"ged*ly, adv. -- Jag"ged*ness, n.