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have seen opened and improved. Addison. The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity. Blackstone. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. Washington.…

To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands. Blackstone.

Uncontracted. [Obs.] Blackwall.

and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and consists of lampblack or ivory black and animal glue. Called also China ink. The true India ink is sepia. See Sepia. -- India matt…

scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. -- Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods. Gray. -- Indian poke (Bot.), a plant usua…

oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black.

tricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. Blackmore.

y communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious. W. Black.

The granting of tithes to laymen. Blackstone.

p; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore.

To darken; to make black; to obscure.

Darkened with a blackish tinge.

ble of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone.

t to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. Blackstone.

A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. Make there a prick with ink. Chaucer. Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink. Spenser.

The state or quality of being inky; blackness.

To guess. [Prov. Eng.] "She inkled what it was." R. D. Blackmore.

Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. "Inky blots." Shak. "Its inky blackness." Boyle.

on, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance. "The inofficious testament." Blackstone. "An inofficious disposition of his fortune." Paley.

re had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county. Blackstone.