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864 words match “HUN”

INCORRUPTIBLE n.
inian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.
INDIGITATE v.
r; to indicate. [Obs.] The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitate six hundred. Sir T. Browne.
INEVITABILITY n.
Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
INEVITABLE a.
Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.
INFINITE n.
ration; infinity; boundlessness. Not till the weight is heaved from off the air, and the thunders roll down the horizon, will the serene light of God flow upon us, and the blue infinite embrace us again. J. Martineau.
INFRAMEDIAN a.
ining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.
INSTITUTION n.
em of elements or rules; an institute. [Obs.] There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, . . . being an institution of physic. Evelyn.
INTELLECTUAL n.
faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.
INTEND v.
t she shall remain. They intended evil against thee. Ps. xxi. 11. To-morrow he intends To hunt the boar with certain of his friends. Shak.
INTERSPERSE v.
ctures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope.
INTONATE v.
To thunder. [Obs.] Bailey.
INTONATION n.
A thundering; thunder. [Obs.] Bailey.
INTRENCH v.
trenches in or upon. It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton.
INTRUDE v.
rs, to intrude where I am graced. Shak. Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. I. Watts.
IODIZE v.
eat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography. R. Hunt.
ISOBRONT n.
An imaginary line, or a line on a chart, marking the simultaneous development of a thunderstorm, as noted by observing the time when the thunder is heard at different places.
JACK n. 2 definitions
In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself. C. Hallock.
JAUNT n.
R.] Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest. Milton.
JAVELIN n.
hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game. Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm Addison.
JEWFISH n.
romicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.
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