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INFECTION n. 6 definitions
caused. And that which was still worse, they that did thus break out spread the infection further by their wandering about with the distemper upon them. De Foe.
INFURIATE a. 2 definitions
Enraged; rading; furiously angry; infuriated. Milton. Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath. Thomson.
INFURIATED a.
Enraged; furious.
INGOT STEEL n.
Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.
INGRAFT v. 2 definitions
To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.
INHIBITION n. 3 definitions
A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. Cowell.
INNER a. 2 definitions
Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton.
INNUTRITIOUS a.
Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.
INSIDE n. 6 definitions
e give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.
INSINUATION n. 4 definitions
Sir H. Wotton. I hope through the insinuation of Lord Scarborough to keep them here till further orders. Lady Cowper.
INSIST v. 2 definitions
once; he insists that he must have money. Insisting on the old prerogative. Shak. Without further insisting on the different tempers of Juvenal and Horace. Dryden.
INSTRUCT a. 5 definitions
Arranged; furnished; provided. [Obs.] "He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men." Chapman.
INSTRUCTION n. 2 definitions
The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
INSTRUCTIVE a.
Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.
INTERNAL-COMBUSTION; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE a. 2 definitions
. There are three main classes: (1) gas engines proper, using fixed gases, as coal, blast-furnace, or producer gas; (2) engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid, as the typical gasoline (petrol) engine;
INTRANSITIVE a. 2 definitions
d so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. Jer. Taylor.
INTRENCH v. 3 definitions
To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton.
INTRENCHANT a.
Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. [Obs.] As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
INVERSION n. 13 definitions
s replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse.
INVOLUCELLATE a.
Furnished with involucels.
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