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Tasteless; unsavory. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.

In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp.

ter decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

experience; spontaneous. "Instinctive motion." Milton. "Instinctive dread." Cowper. With taste instinctive give Each grace appropriate. Mason. Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends Bp. Hall.

; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather. Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst. Milton. Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing. Ecclus. xxiii. 13.

e meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. Shak.

Not transitive; not passing over tas, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.

nd other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.

es of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.

ess by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).

In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secretas, he inwardly repines.

A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary; as, potassium iodide.

A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

le or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. Milton.

Resembling iron, as in taste. Wood.

Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.

A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body. [Obs.] Smirks and irps and all affected humors. B. Jonson .

librium, as a body submerged in a liquid at rest; pertaining to, or characterized by, isostasy.

overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. Locke.