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Insatiable. [Obs.] Hooker. -- Un*sa"ti*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Un*sa"ti*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Insufferable. [Obs.] Hooker. -- Un*suf"fer*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Insufficiency. [Obs.] Hooker.

To disentangle. [Obs.] Hooker.

A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.

rd. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

al; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends of these usual enemies. Baxter. -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.

o believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist. Hooker.

25. He cannot have sufficient honor done unto him; but the uttermost we can do, we must. Hooker.

A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.

ending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him. Hooker.

ance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.

Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as:

ries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.

rluck.] Dryden. It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of darkness hooded! Longfellow.

ound a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land. Craig. -- Warping hook, a hook used by rope makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring. -- Warping mill, a machine for warping yarn. -- Warping penny, money, varying according to the length of the thread, paid to the w…

Characterized by caution; guarded; careful. It behoveth our words to be wary and few. Hooker.

, a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook.

The hooded merganser.