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Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [Obs.] Bacon.

, and minds Had been incorporate. Shak. A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold. Bacon.

In an incorporeal manner. Bacon.

ir, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.

Increase. [R.] Bacon.

ous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon. A fantastical incredulous fool. Bp. Wilkins.

Incrusted. Bacon.

Explanation; display. [Obs.] Bacon.

Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment. [Obs.] "Indiction of a war." Bacon. Secular princes did use to indict, or permit the indiction of, synods of bishops. Jer. Taylor.

One who indicts. Bacon.

t persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon. Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obs.] Bacon.

Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain. [Obs.] Bacon.

a fever induced by fatigue or exposure. Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. Bacon.

firmed or received of the whole to which it belongs. This last is the inductive method of Bacon. It ascends from the parts to the whole, and forms, from the general analogy of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened…

To become drunk. [Obs.] Bacon.

eadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc. Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health. Bacon.

fame; to make infamous. [Obs.] Milton. Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband. Bacon.

The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance. Bacon. Free from the infestation of enemies. Donne.