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Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.

ing a charge of statical electricity develops a charge of statical electricity of the opposite character in a neighboring body. -- Induction coil, an apparatus producing induced currents of great intensity. It consists of a coil or helix of stout insulated copper wire, surrounded by another coil of very fine insulated…

Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.

Same as Diffraction. Point of inflection (Geom.), the point on opposite sides of which a curve bends in contrary ways.

Pertaining to, or derived from, inosite; as, inosinic acid.

ed in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.

To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes.

At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch…

Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle. Dr. Prior.

es, the group or family of languages of ancient Italy. -- Italic order (Arch.), the composite order. See Composite. -- Italic school, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated. -- Italic version. See Itala.

te government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century.

A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace. Dr. W. Smith. Janus cloth, a fabric having both sides dressed, the…

recious stones as a part of its design. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of rich and exquisite form. Shak.

A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves.

A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.

A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.