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A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch. Shak.

A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.

That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign [*] used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.

Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all, consist in a power of indifferency, or in a power of choosing without r…

Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family. It was a law of Solon, that any person who, in the civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, sh…

ugh indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond.

Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. Smart.

ion of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. Sir T. Browne. Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay.

Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art. The infancy and the grandeur of Rome. Arbuthnot.

motions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious. Cowper. Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. Milton.

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.

of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. South.

To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination. And inquire Gladly into the ways of God with man. Miltom.

Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. Kissing with inside lip. Shak.

A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into. He had an insight into almost all the secrets of state. Jortin.

Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.

to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything

Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits. We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. Hawthorne.