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other. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies. Bp. Burnet.

afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. Bp. Burnet.

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman.

Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame.

Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns. Ingle nock, the chimney corner. -- Ingle side, Ingle cheek, the fireside.

ing inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.

inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power. "Illiberal and inquisitorial abuse." F. Blackburne. He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorious power even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience. Hume.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. Bp. Burnet.

enewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

thing used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense in a new instrumentality. J. H. Newman.

Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation. Bp. Burnet.

ntioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Bp. Burnet.

Burnt in. [Obs.]

The act of burning or branding. [Obs.] T. Adams.

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

ang] Ivory black. See under Black, n. -- Ivory gull (Zoöl.), a white Arctic gull (Larus eburneus). -- Ivory nut (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the Phytephas macroarpa, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whitish, close- grained, albuminous substa…

A public executioner, or hangman. [Eng.] The manor of Tyburn was formerly held by Richard Jaquett, where felons for a long time were executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch. Lloyd's MS., British Museum. [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and w…

obins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

n; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns.

A sweetheart; a darling. [Scot.] Burns.