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Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays…

In an impatient manner.

A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.

Insatiableness. T. Grander.

Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception. The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance. Reid. But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient. Sir W. Hamilton.

Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.

Covering; clothing. [R.] Woodward.

Jeopardy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Linnet. Tennyson.

A fat herring with undeveloped roe. [Written also matty.] [Eng. & Scot.]

Calling; vocation; business; trade.

Molestation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Unnatural softness of any organ or part. Dunglison.

In a state of want; necessitous. [Obs.] Shak.

A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.

The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.

Capable of enduring all things. [R.] Carlyle.

A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.

Patient to excess.