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1,511 words match “ROPER”

INSPECTOR n.
ive to organization, recruiting, discharge, administration, accountability for money and property, instruction, police, and discipline.
INSURABLE a.
Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured. The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. Walsh.
INSURANCE n. 3 definitions
The premium paid for insuring property or life.
INTERLOPE v.
pt without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.
INTERLOPER n.
One who interlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously. The untrained man, . . . the interloper as to the professions. I. Taylor.
INTERMEDDLE v.
To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.
INTERMEDDLING n.
The act of improperly interfering. Burke.
INTERNAL-COMBUSTION; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE a.
e (petrol), naphtha, oil (petroleum), etc. 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;
INTERNODE n.
The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.
INTOLERABLE a.
Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.
INVARIANCE n.
The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions. J. J. Sylvester.
INVENTORY n.
oods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of a…
INVERSION n.
s broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).
INVERT v. 2 definitions
had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.
INVESTMENT n.
The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested. Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.
INVOLUTION n.
Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.
IPOMOEIC a.
olvulin (obtained from jalap, the tubers of Ipomoea purga), and identical in most of its properties with sebacic acid.
IRON n.
rum). Atomic weight 55.9. Specific gravity, pure iron, 7.86; cast iron, 7.1. In magnetic properties, it is superior to all other substances.
IRONY a.
Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
IROQUOIAN a.
s. The territory of the northern Iroquoian tribes, of whom the Five Nations, or Iroquois proper, were the chief, extended from the shores of the St. Lawrence and of Lakes Huron, Ontario, and Erie south, through eastern Pennsylvania, to Maryland; that of the southern tribes, of whom the Cherokees were chief, formed part…
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