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To impress, as an animating power, or instinct. [Obs.] Bentley.

To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. Blackstone.

Instruction; education. [Obs.] Bentley.

ment or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke.

ocess; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.

To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic] Shak.

A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.

Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness. Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. Locke.

Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit. Divisions hinder the common interest and public good. Sir W. Temple. When interest calls of all her sneaking train. Pope.

Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.

Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.

That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious. Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey.

A winding, bending, or twisting.

Flexed or bent inward.

To turn or bend inward. "Introverted toes." Cowper.

To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [Written also enure.]

To make or render invalid or infirm. "Invalided, bent, and almost blind." Dickens.

Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

In the inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak.