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eat number. Glittering chains, embroidered richly o'er With infinite of pearls and finest gold. Fanshawe.

that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver. The influx of food into the Celtic region, however, was far from keeping pace with the influx of consumers. Macaulau. The general influx of Greek into modern languages. Earle.

broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms. [He] link'd their fetlocks with a golden band Infrangible. Pope.

ringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding.

A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine. Sir W. Jones. Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast. -- Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

oy as a possession. But the meek shall inherit the earth. Ps. xxxvii. 11. To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it. Shak.

dorn with insertions. Look,how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. Shak. But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story. Milton.

Incapable of being oxidized; as, gold and platinum are inoxidizable in the air.

To stud as with stars. [R.] "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.

t; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person. He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement. I. Taylor.…

ntertwine by weaving; to interlace. Down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold. Milton.

To point or tip with iridium, as a gold pen.

is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointing gold pens.

Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.

Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

ls in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments. [Written also jeweller.] Jeweler's gold. See under Gold.

merit; hence, the verse itself." The least jingle of verse." Guardian. Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.

A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo." Goldsmith.

A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears;- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.