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t inquisition. Latimer. Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Shak.

Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.

A passing or running between; occurrence. Boyle.

Running between or among; intervening. Boyle. Bp. Fell.

To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.

when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.

o (four-stroke) cycle, though many use the two-stroke cycle. They are almost universally trunk engines and single-acting. Because of the intense heat produced by the frequent explosions, the cylinders must be cooled by a water jacket (water-cooled) or by air currents (air cooled) to give the maximum thermodynamic effic…

verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.

The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness. [R.]

The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.

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

Meteorite. -- Pig iron, the form in which cast iron is made at the blast furnace, being run into molds, called pigs. -- Reduced iron. See under Reduced. -- Specular iron. See Hematite. -- Too many irons in the fire, too many objects requiring the attention at once. -- White iron. See Cast iron (above). -- Wrough…

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place. From it issued forced drops of blood. Shak.

e genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant.

Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.

A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.

haltum dissolved in naphtha or turpentine, and used for coating ironwork; -- called also Brunswick black, Japan lacquer, or simply Japan. -- Japan camphor, ordinary camphor brought from China or Japan, as distinguished from the rare variety called borneol or Borneo camphor. -- Japan clover, or Japan pea (Bot.), a clo…