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eeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper. The people, on their holidays, Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable. Milton.

with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. Bp. Warburton.

irtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.

Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid. Sir T. Browne.

To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral.

Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete. Boyle.

pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.

Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence. Loose and inconsequent conjectures. Sir T. Browne.

ch run a whole phrase into one word. History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. W. Belsham.

In the United States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.

Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious. He who fixes on false principles treads or infirm ground. South.

A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.

ingredients. Sir I. Newton. Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids. Arbuthnot.

haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians. -- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.

ructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. [R.] Milton. So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. Addison. -- In"of*fen"sive*ly, adv. -- In"of*fen"sive*ness, n.

Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.

ed; 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.

nguished from one upon the outside. [Colloq. Eng.] So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. Anti-Jacobin. Patent insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspap…

; aim. In [chronical distempers], the principal intention is to restore the tone of the solid parts. Arbuthnot.