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A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. Busy meddlers with intrigues of state. Pomfret.

To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [Written also enure.]

Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.

; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals.

To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply. He knows His end with mine involved. Milton. The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

ing the same color, as lines drawn through certain points in experiments on the chromatic effects of polarized light in crystals.

To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

ranslucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.

Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.

To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.

the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid. To kill time, to busy one's self with something which occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without tediousness.

ne for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture.

rounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.

To become ineffectual or void; to fall. If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king. Ayliffe.

Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy. Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy (Law), a devise, or legacy, which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or for ether cause. Wharton (Law Dict.).

itation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.