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A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Ray.

law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. R. P. Ward.

Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.

truth id productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved. Bp. Warburton.

Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment. [Obs.] "Indiction of a war." Bacon. Secular princes did use to indict, or permit the indiction of, synods of bishops. Jer. Taylor.

Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile. T. Warton. -- In`di*gest"i*ble*ness, n. -- In`di*gest"i*bly, adv.

In an indispensable manner. "Indispensably necessary." Bp. Warburton.

pable of being dissolved or separated; incapable oas, an indissolvable bond of union. Bp. Warburton.

Indistinguishable. [Obs.] T. Warton.

Not edited; unpublished; as, an inedited manuscript. T. Warton.

ll four. Ray. Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet. Ludlow. Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition. Macaulay.

ased; relentless; implacable. [Archaic] "Inexpiable hate." Milton. They are at inexpiable war with all establishments. Burke.

dued by force; impregnable; unconquerable. Burke. A fortress, inexpugnable by the arts of war. Milman.

A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. [Written also infair.] [Scot., & Local, U. S.]

t grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.

To communicate a knowledge of facts to,by way of accusation; to warn against anybody. Tertullus . . . informed the governor against Paul. Acts xxiv. 1.

ing medicinal qualities; to soak. One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water. Coxe.

tions; as, an ingenious author, mechanic. A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war. Hakluyt. Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious. Shak. The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves. Sir W. Temple.

The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.

To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.