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Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.

phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.

following passage: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. Phil. iv. 8. Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small…

One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.

out interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.

Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. Tillotson.

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.

Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.

d be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty. Locke.

st in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine. Sir W. Jones. Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast. -- Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

lf of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians. -- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.…

To engrave; to carve; to sculpture. [Obs. & R.] Shak. Which he insculped in two likely stones. Drayton.

Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal,…

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.

Between the metacarpal bones.

Between the metatarsal bones.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

Between the parietal bones or cartilages; as, the interparietal suture. -- n.

Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.