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herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

A native or one of the people of Hungary. Hungarian grass. See Italian millet, under Millet.

showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.

um crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. Ice-skater = one who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; esp. an at…

A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.

liar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

Illuminative.

Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

Imaginative. [Obs.] Holland.

Imaginative. [R.] Chapman.

To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men. [South Africa]

now represented by the Quichua tribe. Inca dove (Zoöl.), a small dove (Scardafella inca), native of Arizona, Lower California, and Mexico.

f cocoanut husk. -- Indian corn (Bot.), a plant of the genus Zea (Z. Mays); the maize, a native of America. See Corn, and Maize. -- Indian cress (Bot.), nasturtium. See Nasturtium, 2. -- Indian cucumber (Bot.), a plant of the genus Medeola (M. Virginica), a common in woods in the United States. The white rootstock h…

Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported. Negroes were all transported from Africa and are not indigenous or proper natives of America. Sir T. Browne. In America, cotton, being indigenous, is cheap. Lion Playas.

al species (genus Indigofera), from which indigo is prepared. The different varieties are natives of Asia, Africa, and America. Several species are cultivated, of which the most important are the I. tinctoria, or common indigo plant, the I. Anil, a larger species, and the I. disperma. -- Indigo purple, a purple obtain…

Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [Obs.] Johnson.

A member of one of the native races of India of Aryan speech and blood, characterized by tall stature, dolichocephaly, fair complexion with dark hair and eyes, plentiful beard, and narrow and prominent nose.