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To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.

ect; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure. "Intent on mischief." Milton. Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker. I. Watts.

Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent. "Intermissive miseries." Shak. "Intermissive wars." Howell.

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

age, of a dream, or of an enigma. Look how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our looks. Shak.

. -- Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.

To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

Not remissible; unpardonable; as, irremissible crimes. Burke. -- Ir`re*mis"si*ble, n. -- Ir`re*mis"si*bly, adv.

An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.

; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water chestnut. -- Jesuits' powder, powdered cinchona bark. -- Jesuits' tea, a Chilian leguminous shrub, used as…

tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Jetty ad (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.

iry; lively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.

ny event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.

Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late. A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail. Dryden. Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.

To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc. I keep but three men and a boy. Shak.

of Keep. Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.

Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak.

Mischievous; roguish; waggish. Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. Shak.

Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly. "Knavishly witty." Gayton.

A short club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa.