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aving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

Inwrought; woven in.

To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard. [Obs.] Shak.

ittle or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

sion; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

Investiture; investment. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Iodide. [Obs.]

Incurable. [Obs.]

An ischuretic medicine.

An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.

oy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower. The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised. Shak.

Having no jointure.

See Jointress. Bouvier.

lso, the dispensing or administration of justice. The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor. Bacon.

A joining; a union; an alliance. [Obs.] "Devotional compliance and juncture of hearts." Eikon Basilike.

operly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.

Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

n the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid. [Written also cynurenic.]

To languish. [Obs.] Chaucer.