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achine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc. Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill. Cowper.

, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism. He gives . . . To artist ingenuity and skill. Cowper.

an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.

armonious; unmusical; discordant; dissonant. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh. Cowper.

e; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. Cowell.

people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper.

tyle; inimitable eloquence. "Inimitable force." Dryden. Performing such inimitable feats. Cowper. -- In*im"i*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*im"i*ta*bly, adv.

an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper.

who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.

ason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.

condition; so as not to be separable. Bacon. And cleaves through life inseparably close. Cowper.

tful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper.

thout significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.

e through the insinuation of Lord Scarborough to keep them here till further orders. Lady Cowper.

One who, or that which, inspirer. "Inspirer of that holy flame." Cowper.

struction, or experience; spontaneous. "Instinctive motion." Milton. "Instinctive dread." Cowper. With taste instinctive give Each grace appropriate. Mason. Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends Bp. Hall.

ns are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His praise." Cowper.

buse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

ty is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper.

pacities. [R.] In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper.