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Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy. Scared and guided by the ignis fatuus of popular superstition. Jer. Taylor.

An aisle. [Obs.] H. Swinburne.

ience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.

Deceiving; deluding; misleading.

hat. "Some things they do in that they are men . . . ; some things in that they are men misled and blinded with error." Hooker. -- In the name of, in behalf of; on the part of; by authority; as, it was done in the name of the people; -- often used in invocation, swearing, praying, and the like. -- To be in for it. (a…

Inclination; disposition. On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke.

A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams. Tylor. Period of incubation, or Stage of incubation (Med.), the period which elapses between exposure to the causes of a disease and the attack resulting from it; the time of development of the supposed germs or spores.

The quality of being indelible. Bp. Horsley.

, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. Addison.

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

erms carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.

Indifferent to obligation or duty. [Obs.] Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. B. Jonson.

Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. [Obs.] To render sleep's soft blessings insincere. Pope.

ness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke. Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts. Dryden.

Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

Restless; sleepless. Blount.

Sleeplessness.

Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.

e the tedium of waiting. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps. Dryden.