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hy way with thorns. Hos. ii. 6. Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north. Milton.

The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

A person affected with hypochondriasis. He had become an incurable hypochondriac. Macaulay.

Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.

That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.

The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.…

The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.

Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.

The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.

In an incurable manner.

A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.

Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as, invidious distinctions. Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes. Broome. -- In*vid"i*ous*ly, adv. -- In*vid"i*ous*ness, n.

Incurable. [Obs.]

Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless.

Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil.

ils, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacterium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.

Causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business. Who strive sit out losing hands are lost. Herbert.

In a manner to incur loss.