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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.

HYDROSPHERE n. 2 definitions

The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

HYPERESTHESIA n.

Same as Hyperæsthesia.

A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously invuced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.

Of or pert. to hysteresis. -- Hysteretic constant, the hysteretic loss in ergs per cubic centimeter per cycle.

Together. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ILL-MANNERED a.

Impolite; rude.

ILL-TEMPERED a. 2 definitions

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.] So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.

Having banners.

One who, or that which, imbitters.

INADHERENT a. 2 definitions

INCOHERENCE; INCOHERENCY n. 3 definitions

The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. Boyle.

INCOHERENT a. 2 definitions

Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward.

INCOHERENTIFIC a.

Causing incoherence. [R.]

INCOHERENTLY adv.

In an incoherent manner; without due connection of parts.

INCOHERENTNESS n.

INDIFFERENCE n. 4 definitions

The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

INDIFFERENCY n.

Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all, consist in a power of indifferency, or in a power of choosing without r…

INDIFFERENT a. 6 definitions

Not mal Dangers are to me indifferent. Shak. Everything in the world is indifferent but sin. Jer. Taylor. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne.

INDIFFERENTISM n. 3 definitions

State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. The indifferentism which equalizes all religions and gives equal rights to truth and error. Cardinal Manning.