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A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral.

sion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward.

burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance. -- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*bus"ti*bly, adv.…

An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.

Not capable of being contained within limits. An infinite and incomprehensible substance. Hooker.

ow the will acts in producing muscular motion. It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance should represent an extended figure. Locke. -- In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*ceiv"a*bly, adv. The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any subject to possess it. A. Tucker.

apes immense. Milton. Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley.

n; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

ker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.

A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors. Harvey.

Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth. As if increase of appetite had grown By what if fed on. Shak. For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. Dryden.

An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.

A reddish resinous substance, obtained from indican.

inctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.

A brown amorphous substance resembling humin, and obtained from indican.

A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.

A dark brown resinous substance obtained from indican.

A substance isomeric with, and resembling, indigo blue, and accompanying it as a side product, in its artificial production.

The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury.

Not dissoluble; not capable of being dissolved, melted, or liquefied; insoluble; as few substances are indissoluble by heat, but many are indissoluble in water. Boyle.