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In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.

The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.

informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay.

To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. Sir W. Scott.

A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed.

Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts. Locke.

ity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty. A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. Sir W. Raleigh. Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. Tillotson.

An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

ndition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.

Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute.

Capable of being indorsed; transferable; convertible.

Below the vertebral column, subvertebral.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

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

To convert into a stony substance; to petrity. [R.] Bacon.

small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.

a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. Bp. Stillingfleet.

eet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.