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A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.

or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light.

put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular. "Carol incondite rhymes." J. Philips.

r added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. "Large increment." J. Philips.

but especially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves.

of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.

f restrain or control. If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips. Tooke. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond.

; not fluent, graceful, or pathetic; not persuasive; as, ineloquent language. Nor are thy lips ungraceful, sire of men, Nor tongue ineloquent. Milton.

, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate. The arts of grafting and ineying. J. Philips.

To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect. J. Philips.

Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.

nominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc. Inglorious shelter in an alien land. J. Philips.

efore the person whose favor is sought. Lysimachus . . . ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pupil. Budgell.

The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

ternal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. Kissing with inside lip. Shak.

A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.

oduce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent. Elliptic integral, one of an important class of integrals, occurring in the higher mathematics; -- so called because one of the integrals expresses the length of an arc of an ellipse.

aving no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education of Philip. Bacon. My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying. Fuller.