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Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.

Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well- intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having ill designs.

tion of anything among others, as the insertion of a phrase, line, or verse in a metrical composition; specif. (Geol.), the intrusion of a bed or layer between other layers. Intercalations of fresh-water species in some localities. Mantell.

The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.

ular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest. Compound interest, interest, not only on the original principal, but also on unpaid interest from the time it fell due. -- Simple interest, interest on the principal sum without interest on overdue interest.

r kerosene. In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air, the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas (flame ignition -- now little used), by a hot tube (tube ignition) or the like, by an electric spark (electric ignition, the usual method is gasoline engines,…

g and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.

Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.

Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services.

very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between s…

Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.

To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

One of a series of compounds containing iodine, and analogous to the chlorhydrins.

to, or containing, iodine; specif., denoting those compounds in which it has a relatively high valence; as, iodic acid. Iodic acid, a monobasic acid, consisting of iodine with three parts of oxygen and one of hydrogen.

A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary; as, potassium iodide.

A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography. R. Hunt.

A light powder used as a substitute for iodoform. It is a compound of iodoform and albumin.

A crystallized substance of the composition C4I4NH, technically tetra-iodo-pyrrol, used like iodoform.

Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.