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to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.

Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. [Obs.] Lovelace.

Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] Holland.

An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

Capable of being incinerated or reduced to ashes. Sir T. Browne.

Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical point; -- also particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide, formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or pressure.

The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. The incompressibility of water is not absolute. Rees.

Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.

Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form.

or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial. Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms Reduced their shapes immense. Milton. Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley.

to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance.

To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

- Indian currant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Symphoricarpus (S. vulgaris), bearing small red berries. -- Indian dye, the puccoon. -- Indian fig. (Bot.) (a) The banyan. See Banyan. (b) The prickly pear. -- Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indi…

n 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.

variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution.

rial of commercial indigo, from which it is obtained as a dark blue earthy powder, with a reddish luster, C16H10N2O2, which may be crystallized by sublimation. Indigo blue is also made from artificial amido cinnamic acid, and from artificial isatine; and these methods are of great commercial importance. Called also ind…

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

pright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. Tillotson.