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ad. Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence," what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word "indolence"! This is from "in" and "doleo," not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as we now employ it, seems to aff…

n an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal. What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire disgrace Drygen. The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on infero-ior kinds. Cowper.

ormer. See Informer. [Obs. or R.] It was the last evidence of the kind; the informant was hanged. Burke.

ities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

as instrumental in conducting the business. The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak.

ents; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell.

To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen.

one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands. Hooker.

ctly interfused the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands. Lowell.

osses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey.

Betwixt your eyes and night Shak. The common Father of mankind seasonably interposed his hand, and rescues miserable man. Woodward.

that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles. Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. Macaulay.

a); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle. Dr. Prior.

the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, "His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him." Gen. xvi. 12.

Imitation of another's handwriting,

tch. See under Baker. -- Barber's itch, sycosis. -- Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers. -- Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite (Tyrogluphus sacchari). -- Itch insect (Zoöl.), a small parasitic mite (…

A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.