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ith valiant squadrons round about to hem." Fairfax. "Hemmed in to be a spoil to tyranny." Daniel. -- To hem out, to shut out. "You can not hem me out of London." J. Webster.

An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere. Daniell's hygrometer, a form of hygrometer consisting of a bent glass tube terminating in two bulbs, the one covered with muslin, the other of black glass, and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cool…

est use: Very great; vast; huge. "Immense the power" Pope. "Immense and boundless ocean." Daniel. O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! Milton.

to grow, And to incorporate with right so far As it might come to seem the same in show. Daniel.

tion; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.

Indefatigable. [Obs.] Daniel.

icious principles. It was her chance to light Amidst the gross infections of those times. Daniel.

To invent; to contrive. [Obs.] Daniel.

on of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. Our fields ingrained with blood. Daniel. Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.

To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic] The lion being dead, even hares insult. Daniel. An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. Landor.

To cloud. [R.] Daniel.

Combat. [Obs.] Daniel.

To intrigue. [Obs.] Daniel.

To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. [R.] Daniel.

To lay or place among or between. Daniel.

Mutual. [Obs.] Daniel. -- In`ter*mu"tu*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. [R.] Daniel.

; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. [R.] Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.

To render vile. [Obs.] Daniel.

To cause to become or appear vulgar. [Obs.] Daniel.