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guished. H. Spenser. The Lettish race, not a primitive stock of the Slavi, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable. Tooke.

Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.

Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

recise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis (Math.), that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate coefficients (Math.), coefficients arbitrarily assumed for convenience of calculation, or to facilitate some artifice of analysi…

To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in. A master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite. Clarendon.…

Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.

Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells.

A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching. Craig.

To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. Innominate bone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is…

The interweaving of branches of trees. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

To let in light upon, as by cutting away branches. [Obs.]

Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular.

Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.

Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

xt the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.

That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology. Schaff-Herzog.

A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream…

A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse. Jesse window (Arch.), a window of which the glazing and tracery represent the tree of Jesse.