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grass (Sorghum vulgare), having many varieties, among which are broom corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It is called also Guinea corn. See Durra. -- Indian ox (Zoöl.), the zebu. -- Indian paint. See Bloodroot. -- Indian paper. See India paper, under India. -- Indian physic (Bot.), a plant of tw…

indignities you laid upon me Shak. A person of so great place and worth constrained to endure so foul indignities. Hooker.

Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance. Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least can not sink. H. Brooke.…

which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment. There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being. Hooker.

Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous. His reason saw With instantaneous view, the truth of things. Thomson.

Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. Locke.

In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.

A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.

Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action.

admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.

A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland.

The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.

Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.

Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Not enduring; not able to endure. The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses. Arbuthnot.

Incapable of being turned or changed. An indurate and invertible conscience. Cranmer.

Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:

onstone. See under Clay. -- Ironstone china, a hard white pottery, first made in England during the 18th century.