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A tendency towards another body or point

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively inclined." Cowper.

Inclination; disposition. On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke.

ude; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton.

rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side.

in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless. Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their children. Jer. Taylor.

Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So great indignities you laid upon me Shak. A person of so great place and worth constr…

lfishness of men indispose them to religious duties. The king was sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles, of Calvin's disciples. Clarendon.

sinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury.

To cover the back of; to load or burden. [Obs.] Elephants indorsed with towers. Milton.

To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain; (a) when said of a habit, desire, etc.: to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations; (b) when said of a person: to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold r…

Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in æstivation.

Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower.

habitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.

ace, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.

to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. I. Watts. Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage. Milton.

the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper.