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A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer.

Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.

Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers. [Obs] Sir J. Harrington.

A remedy for the jaundice.

Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.

Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion.

The jaundice.

Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.

ss; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.

Not prejuged; unprejudiced; impartial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.

hows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent. [In this sense the plural is always indices.] Index error, the error in the reading of a mathematical instrument arising from the zero of the index not being in complete adjustment with that of the limb, or with its theoretically perfect position in the instrument; a…

Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias. He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign. Sir T. More.

Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon. Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated t…

estone (Geol.), a fresh-water limestone, largely composed of the agglomerated cases of caddice worms, or larvæ of caddice flies (Phryganea). It is found in Miocene strata of Auvergne, France, and some other localities.

nexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

land; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices. The penury of insular conversation. Johnson.

Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.

aving an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.