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Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression.

ion. The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it. South.

Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane.

The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.

Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile.

The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous. "Blind or indiscriminate forgiveness." I. Taylor. The indiscriminate defense of right and wrong. Junius. -- In`dis*crim"i*nate*ly, adv. Cowper.

Making no distinction; not discriminating.

Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck. [Obs.] Bacon.

A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.

Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning. [Obs.] Shenstone.

Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power. "Illiberal and inquisitorial abuse." F. Blackburne. He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorious power even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience. Hume.…

Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial. [Obs.] Milton.

Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.…

The act or process of making whole or entire.

The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.

A person who dies without making a valid will. Blackstone.

The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. Paley.