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To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle. [Written also enclasp.] The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.

Cumbersome; troublesome. [Written also encombrous.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.

The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.

The person who indorses. [Written also endorser.]

given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. [Written also infair.] [Scot., & Local, U. S.]

Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. [Written also inferrible.] H. Spencer. A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises. Burke.

Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity. [Obs.] [Written also ingenie.] Becon.

The reedbuck of South Africa. [Written also ingali.]

d not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality,innate and written in divine letters. Fleming (Origen). If I could only show,as I hope I shall . . . how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions…

That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

To write on a scroll; to record. [Written also inscrol.] Shak.

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. [Written also instilment.]

To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.

Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.

That which is interlined; a passage, word, or line inserted between lines already written or printed.

o trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader. [Written also enterplead.]

To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]

To twist into or together; to interweave. [Written also entwist.]

be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [Written also enure.]