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To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman.

The loon. See Ember-goose.

As soon as. Cf. Directly,

work us all From princes into pages. Shak. His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon made him conspicuous. Macaulay.

ble; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship. "The inconstant moon." Shak. While we, inquiring phantoms of a day, Inconstant as the shadows we survey! Boyse.

To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function (Math.), a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished.

creasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.

he genus Symphoricarpus (S. vulgaris), bearing small red berries. -- Indian dye, the puccoon. -- Indian fig. (Bot.) (a) The banyan. See Banyan. (b) The prickly pear. -- Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially w…

An arrow poison, made from an apocynaceous plant (Strophanthus hispidus) of the Gaboon country; -- called also onaye.

of medicines or means. The seeming inefficacy of censures. Bp. Hall. The inefficacy was soon proved, like that of many similar medicines. James Gregory.

2, Bn, 2 and n are inferior characters. -- Inferior tide, the tide corresponding to the moon's transit of the meridian, when below the horizon.

Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.

A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle. [Obs.] Toone.

The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

s driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; - - also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.

ty. Crocus and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground. Milton. The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms. Tennyson.

Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.

ntermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

rulency. The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, an the mortification of lampoons. Guardian.

Irradiating or illuminating; as, the irradiant moon. Boyse.