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Of or pertaining to the indulges or crop of birds.

The crop, or craw, of birds.

Gluttonous. [Obs.] Blount.

See Engorge. Milton.

in which metal is cast; a mold. [Obs.] And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer. Chaucer.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

To ingratiate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Ungracious; unkind. [Obs.] Holland.

See Ingraft. [Obs.]

To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Ro…

A person who ingrafts.

The act of ingrafting.

-- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- Triple ingrain carpet, a three-ply carpet.

To seize; to clutch; to grapple. [Obs.] Drayton.

Ingrateful. [Obs. or Poetic] Bacon.

Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury.

Ungratefully. [Obs.]

To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; -- used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose favor is sought. Lysimachus . . . ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pupil. Budgell.

lness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.

To engrave. [R.] "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.