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A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

See Inhabitativeness. What the phrenologists call inhabitiveness. Lowell.

The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

tual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell.

Formed between the upper and lower teeth; as, interdental consonants.

terfused the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands. Lowell.

Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular.

A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

The bowels; entrails; viscera. Large intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the lower portion of the bowel, terminating at the anus. It is adapted for the retention of fecal matter, being shorter, broader, and less convoluted than the small intestine; it consists of three parts, the cæcum, colon, and rectum. -- Small intesti…

The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination. Dunglison.

Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.

Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate. Lowell.

seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible. To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works. Milton. Invisible bird (Zoöl.), a small, shy singing bird (Myadestes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands. -- Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.…

Not vitiated. Lowell.

Of or pertaining to iridium; -- applied specifically to compounds in which iridium has a low valence.

f energy, the law of variation of the pressure and density of a fluid, the one during the lowering, and the other during the raising, of its temperature, when the quantity of heat given out by the fluid during any given stage of the one process is equal to the quantity received during the corresponding stage of the oth…

To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. "An Englishman Italianized." Lowell.

-- Itch mite. (Zoöl.) Same as Itch insect, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox. -- Sugar baker's itch, a variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin. -- Washerwoman's itch, eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen.

fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow. [Written also jak.]