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Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. "An incredulous smile." Longfellow.

Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds. Indented line (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.

; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.

oiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope.

stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. Coleridge.

or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.

that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow.

stings and remores of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. South.

By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. Blackstone. Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an hei…

A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.

nkhorn by his side." Ezek. ix. 2. From his pocket the notary drew his papers and inkhorn. Longfellow.

or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties. And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line Pope. The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. I. Taylor.

nuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale.

animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.

Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. Longfellow.

To be or come between. Long hid by interposing hill or wood. Cowper.

To entangle; to intertwine. "Moss and intertangled vines." Longfellow.

To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface.

Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. A. Tucker.…

Old; long-established. [Obs.] It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon.