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That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

To engrave; to carve; to sculpture. [Obs. & R.] Shak. Which he insculped in two likely stones. Drayton.

An engraving, carving, or inscription. [Obs.] On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.

Engraved. Glover.

Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot.

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.

dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson.

Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.

The quality or state of being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor. Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great intrepidity. Addison.

Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave.

To play the Italian; to speak Italian. Cotgrave.

Repeating. Cotgrave. -- It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.

Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.…

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey. It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress. Bacon.

To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.

m. [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have succeeded him in his odious office. Macaulay.

One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

The art or trade of a jeweler. Cotgrave.