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A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.

ch is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne.

Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.

The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.

taching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle.

One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money. [U.S.]

The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.

om one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc. Ray.

The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.

ossession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish. On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation. Ayliffe.

The of instilling; also, that which is instilled. Johnson.

Stimulation.

The act of breathing on or into anything; especially:

The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.

omposition; specif. (Geol.), the intrusion of a bed or layer between other layers. Intercalations of fresh-water species in some localities. Mantell.

The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption. "Continual interpellations." Bp. Hall.

pon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey.