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The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.

A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.

hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.

d of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.

and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.

United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation. Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers. D. Ramsay. Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves…

A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.

the imido group. Imido acid, an organic acid, consisting of one or more acid radicals so united with the imido group that it contains replaceable acid hydrogen, and plays the part of an acid; as, uric acid, succinimide, etc., are imido acids.

To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend. [R.] Thomson.

Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.

man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.

Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Milton. He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. Jortin.

Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.

Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete. Boyle.

Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. Shak. A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold. Bacon.

United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.

A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt. D. Ramsay. A. Hamilton.