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The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.

Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking. Ill-favored and lean-fleshed. Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.

wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

ness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl.

Embossed or raised work. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.…

To people; to give a population to. [Obs.] Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.

A poisoner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fi.

Impostrous; deceitful. Strictness fales and impostrous. Beau. & Fl.

enclasp.] The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.

consolate. Dryden. With inconsolable distress she griev'd, And from her cheek the rose of beauty fied. Falconer. -- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sol"a*bly, adv.

pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance. Beau. & Fl. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction dull of prosperous hope. Shak.

The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. The notorious inelegance of her figure. T. Hook.

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

Like an infant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Unfashionable. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.

Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties. Broome.

To inclose, as in a mew or cage. [R.] "Inmew the town below." Beau. & Fl.

or event. 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl. Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. De Quincey.