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lunacy. All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.

e; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business. The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak.

, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.

Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.

Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart.

Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual. With our Savior, internal purity is everything. Paley.

Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.

Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton.

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson.

Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "Inward beauty." Shak.

In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secretas, he inwardly repines.

Heartiness; earnestness. What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling. M. Arnold.

A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill. Beau. & Fl.

A sweetheart; a darling. [Scot.] Burns.

Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. "Joyful tidings." Shak. My soul shall be joyful in my God. Is. lxi. 10. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. Pope. -- Joy"ful*ly, adv. -- Joy"ful*ness, n.

ch and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own. Jer. Taylor. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. Shak.

One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein.

A joining; a union; an alliance. [Obs.] "Devotional compliance and juncture of hearts." Eikon Basilike.

d. And having just enough, not covet more. Dryden. The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast. Sir P. Sidney. To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one. Shak.

ving feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.