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Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.

residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

aterials. "With a writer's inkhorn by his side." Ezek. ix. 2. From his pocket the notary drew his papers and inkhorn. Longfellow.

To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. Tennyson.

hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.

rpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments. Bp. Wilkins.

Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Grew.

Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper.

ion in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.

- Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the earth. -- Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.

to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech. Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Matt. i. 23. And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. Gen. xli. 8…

To put in between other things; to insert. [Obs.] Brerewood.

To converse. [Obs.] Carew.

A looking after; a regard to. [Obs.] What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller.

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.

A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.

Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.

re, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a k…

A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Milton.