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A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.

The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson.

A state of being unmixed; separateness. Sir T. Browne.

Want of completion; incompleteness. Smart.

Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.

Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Obs.] Sir M . Hale.

Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.

The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.

licitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.

The quality or state of being infinite, or without limits; infiniteness.

eness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.

The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining. All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair.

The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. Jer. Taylor.

The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire. Jer. Taylor.

Instructed; taught; enlightened. [Obs.] Milton.

The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc. The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied. Hooker.

Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. A local motion keepeth bodies integral. Bacon.

The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.

Intemperateness. [Obs.] Boyle.