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Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes. Cowell.

thers; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but independent crust. Cowper.

show; to make known. That turns and turns to indicate From what point blows the weather. Cowper.

of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

An indiscreet act; indiscreet behavior. Past indiscretion is a venial crime. Cowper.

or. The indiscriminate defense of right and wrong. Junius. -- In`dis*crim"i*nate*ly, adv. Cowper.

ies become obscure and indistinct. I. Watts. Their views, indeed, are indistinct and dim. Cowper.

separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. Cowper. An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. Whately. That individuals die, his will ordains. Dryden.

sition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity. Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence," what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word "indolence"! This is from "in" and "doleo," not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state…

To draw on; to overspread. [A Latinism] Cowper.

To make drunk; to intoxicate. The cups That cheer but not inebriate. Cowper.

Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.

interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain. Burke.

ted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords. Cowell.

corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious. Cowper. Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. Milton.

fest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates. To poison vermin that infest his plants. Cowper. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. Addison. And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently s…

fed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

dire disgrace Drygen. The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on infero-ior kinds. Cowper.

Flowing in. "With influent tide." Cowper. "Influent odors." Mrs. Browning.

The liquid extract obtained by this process. Sips meek infusion of a milder herb. Cowper.