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Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial. Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms Reduced their shapes immense. Milton. Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley.

Existence without a body or material form; immateriality. Cudworth.

One who believes in incorporealism. Cudworth.

The state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism. G. Eliot.

In an incorporeal manner. Bacon.

The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality. Berkeley.

An axis on which all the flower buds. Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants. Milne. Centrifugal inflorescence, determinate inflorescence. -- Centripetal inflorescence, indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate.

One of the Insectivora.

An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.

Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv.

To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The act of admitting into or within. Hammond.

Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and ishial tuberosity.

One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism.

A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling.

Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; -- in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.

tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard. There's treachery in that Judas-colored beard. Dryden.

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

In a labored manner; with labor.

One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.