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A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra. -- Hy`per*ap`o*phys"i*al, a.

One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

t doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience. Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne. Implicit function. (Math.) See under Function.

To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly. With slow paces measures back the field, And inches to the walls. Dryden.

Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness. That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 1 Cor. vii. 5. From the rash hand of bold incontinence. Milton.…

ing on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them. Gray.

rystalline powder obtained by reduction from indigo blue, and by oxidation easily changed back to it; -- called also indigogen. -- Indigo yellow, a substance obtained from indigo.

To cover the back of; to load or burden. [Obs.] Elephants indorsed with towers. Milton.

The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.

Infinite; perpetual, as a canon whose end leads back to the beginning. See Infinite, a., 5.

To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder. Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. Bentley.

Pertaining to the upper back, or the part between the shoulders; as, the interscapular feathers.

Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.

The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.

Having no backbone; invertebrate.

Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval. Inverted arch (Arch.), an arch placed with crown downward; -- much used in foundations.

An old game resembling backgammon.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

e height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia.