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to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.

e purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. J. S. Mill.

Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

Light-headed; foolish. [Obs.] Ford. Idle pulley (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power. -- Idle wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolutio…

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.

Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

ome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends. Pope.

eteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Shak.

the old German empire. -- Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor. -- Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German empire. -- Imperial drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill. -- Imperial eagle. (Zoöl.) See Eagle. -- Imperial green. See Paris green, under Green…

To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in curls implied." Chapman.

e of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous. The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints to better. Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pro"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prov"a*bly, adv.

ans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house). Their vacation . . . falls in so pat with ours. Lamb.

The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.

To bow; to incline the head. Chaucer.

To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

r suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

s. -- Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom. -- Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof,in a double-plated roof. -- Inner post (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the trans…

Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.