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A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.

Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

An animal affected with gynandromorphism,

An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

Affected, with gynandromorphism.

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

Horrisonous. [Obs.]

That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants. Boyle.

Imagining; conceiving. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n.

Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile. [R.]

oid of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and inane instincts." I. Taylor. -- In*ane"ly, adv.

Not angular. [Obs.]

Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [R.]

e; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances. Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. Byron.

Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated. Pope.

The quality or state of being inanimate. The deadness and inanimateness of the subject. W. Montagu.

Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration. [Obs.] The inanimation of Christ living and breathing within us. Bp. Hall.

To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment. [R.]

Inanition. [R.]