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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



860 words match “NYS”

INFURIATE v.
o render furious; to enrage; to exasperate. Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino. Dr. H. More.
INGRAVE v.
To engrave. [R.] "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
INGROOVE v.
To groove in; to join in or with a groove. Tennyson.
INLAY n.
n. The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms. Tennyson.
INOSCULATE v.
come as one. They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. Tennyson.
INRUNNING n.
The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.
INSWATHE v.
To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.
INTELLIGENCE n.
r mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. Tennyson. Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
INTERLOCK v.
ogether; to secure in place by mutual fastening. My lady with her fingers interlocked. Tennyson.
INTERVAL n.
ing with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval (Mus.), an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
INTERVITAL a.
Between two lives. [R.] Through all its [the spirit's] intervital gloom. Tennyson.
IRIS n.
An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors. Tennyson.
IRRITABLE a.
easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper. Vicious, old, and irritable. Tennyson.
ISLE v.
n island; to surround or encompass; to island. [Poetic] Isled in sudden seas of light. Tennyson.
IVY n.
under Mountain. -- Ivy owl (Zoöl.), the barn owl. -- Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. Tennyson. -- Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ampelopsis tricuspidata), closely related to the Virginia creeper. -- Poison ivy (Bot.), an American woody creeper (Rhus Toxicodendron), with trifoliate leaves, and greenish-white…
JACINTH n.
See Hyacinth. Tennyson.
JAIL v.
To imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.
JAVELIN v.
To pierce with a javelin. [R.] Tennyson.
JET v.
To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. A dozen angry models jetted steam. Tennyson.
JINGLING n.
of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink. "The jingling of the guinea." Tennyson.
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