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Not devoted. [Obs.] Bentley. Clarendon.

Want of devotion; impiety; irreligion. "An age of indevotion." Jer. Taylor.

Not devout. -- In*de*vout"ly, adv.

To indue. [Obs.] Spenser.

That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses. Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants. Arbuthnot.

One who makes an index.

Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.

In the manner of an index.

Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness. Harvey.

A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and consists of lampblack or ivory black and animal glue. Called also China in…

. See Caoutchouc.

Same as Wootz.

To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.

A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.

An Indiaman.

Indexical. [R.] Fuller.

A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo.

Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. That turns and turns to indicate From what point blows the weather. Cowper.