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To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve. "I am angry and hurt." Thackeray.

and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

To think; to suppose. My sister is not so defenseless left As you imagine. Milton.

To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.

n color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.

ry, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

the quality of being impeccable; exemption from sin, error, or offense. Infallibility and impeccability are two of his attributes. Pope.

Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark.

Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.

fic object, as in the enforcement of maritime liens against a vessel, which is made the defendant by a sort of personification. Most actions for the specific recovery of property in English and American law are in the nature of actions in personam against a person alleged to be unlawfully withholding the property.…

To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands. Blackstone.

One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

f being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.

That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society. Beattie.

Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language. Cowper.

ty, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind. The indelicacy of English comedy. Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. Addison.

Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv.

from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott.