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ed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- Triple ingrain carpet, a three-ply carpet.

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a deep study." Sir W. Scott.

Intimately; thoroughly. [Obs.] I shall desire to know him more inwardly. Beau. & Fl.

To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired. If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep. Mortimer.

To mix thoroughly, as liquids or semiliquids.

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

To handle roughly; as, the captive was manhandled.

Maccaulay. No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it. Locke.

smiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [Colloq.] -- To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [Colloq.]

s of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.

To sport with roughly; to rumple. [Written also mouzle.] [Obs.] Wycherley.

the stem of a plant arises from the root. Neck and crop, completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.] -- Neck and neck (Racing), so nearly equal that one cannot be said to be before the other; very close; even; side by side. -- Neck of a capital. (Arch.) See Gorgerin. -- Neck of a cascabel (Gun.),…

To inspect throughly; to select. [Obs.] Cotton.

To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

n collusion. [Obs.] "Go pack with him." Shak. To send packing, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. "The parliament . . . presently sent him packing. South.

y the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.

To boil or cook thoroughly. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. "Perfectly divine." Milton. As many as touched were made perfectly whole. Matt. xiv. 36.

Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual. [R.] Blackstone.

To investigate thoroughly. [Obs.]