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Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

To form into a band or bands. "Imbanded nations." J. Barlow.

Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.

An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.

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

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant. Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. I. Taylor. Incandescent lamp or light (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of cond…

Too odious to be expressed or mentioned. [Obs.] Howell.

A small vessel for holding ink, to dip the pen into; also, a device for holding ink and writing materials.

Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper.

One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea. Sir T. Browne.

Inland. [Obs.] T. Reeve(1657)

Between the mandibles; interramal; as, the intermandibular space.

Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.

An inhabitant of an island.

Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave.

A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.

ceous shrub (Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.

certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.

A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.