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A woman in love; a mistress. "The fair inamorata." Sherburne.

Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. Tillotson.

uit or aim; as, he was negligent in business, but industrious in pleasure; an industrious mischief maker. Industrious to seek out the truth of all things. Spenser. -- In*dus"tri*ous*ly, adv. -- In*dus"tri*ous*ness, n.

Unfitness; ineptitude. The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy. Dr. H. More.

Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly. Glanvill.

Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden.

The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck. [Obs.] Bacon.

The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.

n or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill.

Mischievous; hurtful; harassing. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mischievous; harmful; dangerous. [Obs.] "Infestuous as serpents." Bacon.

Misfortune. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc. Without being injurious to the memory of our English Pindar. Dryden.

In an injurious or hurtful manner; wrongfully; hurtfully; mischievously.

al; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character. For he that doeth injury shall receve that he did evil. Wyclif(Col. iii. 25). Many times we do injury to a cause by dwel…

Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden.

ent in a newspaper. These words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. Bp. Stillingfleet.

insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

arness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke. Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts. Dryden.

a work of intelligence and knowledge. Sir W. Hamilton. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. Shak.