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y and with confusion; a hurry. Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed. Sir W. Scott.

The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.

A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.

done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.

inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service, Improper for a slave. Shak. And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill. Pope.

Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc. "Incongruous mixtures of opinions." I. Taylor. "Made up of incongruous parts." Macaulay. Incongruous denotes that kind of absence of harmony or suitableness of which the taste and experience of men takes cognizance. C.…

upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. Dryden.

An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

Not sensuous; not pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses. That intermediate door Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form And form insensuous. Mrs. Browning.

A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly. Milton. His address was courteous, and even insinuating. Prescott.

power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner. He bad a natural insinuation and address which made him acceptable in the best company. Clarendon.

gether; to intermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing. Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . . Invoke his warlike spirit. Shak.…

sh taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil.

arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.