Search the Dictionary

Inauspicious [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable. "Inauspicious stars." Shak. "Inauspicious love." Dryden. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ness, n.

Without authority; not authoritative.

To embark; to go or put into a barge. [Obs.] Drayton.

Shining in. South.

Inherence; inherent existence. I. Watts.

To inclose. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Blown in or into. [Obs.]

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. Cowper.

A breaking in; inroad; invasion.

To infuse by breathing; to inspire. Coleridge.

Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments." Burke.

To produce or generate within. Bp. Reynolds. To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. Milton.

Burning within. Her inburning wrath she gan abate. Spenser.

Burnt in; ineffaceable. Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. P. Fletcher.

A bursting in or into.

A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards. [Written also ink.]

The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe. Inca dove (Zoöl.), a small dove (Scardafella inca), native of Arizona, Lower California, and Mexico.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." Shak.