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885 words match “RIDGE”

INHABITABLE a.
Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited. [Obs.] The frozen ridges of the Alps Or other ground inhabitable. Shak.
INSTINCTIVITY n.
The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. [R.] Coleridge.
INTELLIGIBLE n.
n; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.
INTENTIONALITY n.
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
INTERFUSION n.
The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused. Coleridge.
INTERTEXTURE n.
the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.
INTERTWINE n.
The act intertwining, or the state of being intertwined. Coleridge.
INTROSUSCEPTION n.
he person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby. Coleridge.
INTURBIDATE v.
ion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.
INVENTION n.
e was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn.
IRREBUTTABLE a.
Incapable of being rebutted. Coleridge.
JERMOONAL n.
The Himalayan now partridge.
JUBILANT a.
tering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. "The jubilant age." Coleridge. While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton.
JUG v.
To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
JUGUM n.
One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
KAME n.
A low ridge. [Scot.] See Eschar.
KEEL n.
A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface. Bilge keel (Naut.), a keel peculiar to ironclad vessels, extending only a portion of the length of the vessel under the bilges. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- False keel. See under False. -- Keel boat. (a) A covered freight boat, with a keel, but no sails, used on…
KEELED a.
Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale.
KINGTRUSS n.
A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc.
KNELL v.
as by a knell. Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. Coleridge.
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