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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes. Burton.

e, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; -- used especially of something of dignity or worth or public concern; as, to inaugurate a new era of things, new methods, etc. As if kings did closes remarkable days to inaugurate their favors. Sir H. Wotton.

Raw; indigestible. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output. Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation or company issuing it, and the interest of which is to be paid from the earnings of the company before any d…

Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened. [Obs.] Bacon.

The state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity. [Obs.] Bacon.

Inconsumable. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

or penalty; the state of being indemnified. Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard. Burke.

The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.

A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo.

A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color.

A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.

A substance isomeric with, and resembling, indigo blue, and accompanying it as a side product, in its artificial production.

ent, discovered in certain ores of zinc, by means of its characteristic spectrum of two indigo blue lines; hence, its name. In appearance it resembles zinc, being white or lead gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium. Symbol In. Atomic weight, 113.4.…

One who, or that which, individuates. Sir K. Digby.

ne we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies. Digby.

Any one of a series of artificial blue dyes, in appearance resembling indigo, for which they are often used as substitutes.

A complex, nitrogenous radical, C8H5NO, regarded as the essential nucleus of indigo.

A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds.