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Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates. [Written also hypercarburetted.]

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Producing fruit below the ground.

Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.

To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.

One who incarcerates.

To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] Wiseman.

Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. [Obs.] Lovelace.

Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.] I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. Richardson.

An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

An incarnative medicine.

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).

Situated between the external and internal carotid arteries; as, an intercarotid ganglion.

Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments.

Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.

Between the metacarpal bones.

The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.

A cayman. See Yacare.