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To begin with good omens. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable. "Inauspicious stars." Shak. "Inauspicious love." Dryden. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ness, n.

A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky.

nsulated copper wire, surrounded by another coil of very fine insulated wire, in which a momentary current is induced, when a current (as from a voltaic battery), passing through the inner coil, is made, broken, or varied. The inner coil has within it a core of soft iron, and is connected at its terminals with a conden…

Persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners. Jer. Taylor. Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night! Pope.

To allure; to lay a bait for. [Obs.] To inescate and beguile young women! Burton.

Deranged in mind; out of one's senses. [Obs.] These poor informal women. Shak.

Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton.

Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate. Boyle.

The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. "Used by way of fomentation, insession, or bath." [R.] Holland.

A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment. There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being. Hooker.

partment of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.

., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.

or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.

One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.

Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational. J. S. Mill.

ccuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

on the skin. -- Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen.

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

A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy. [Colloq.] J. & H. Smith.