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y to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness. That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 1 Cor. vii. 5. From the rash hand of bold incontinence. Milton.…

Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.

In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites.

Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.

Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.

Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton.

A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in .

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

A crystalline, nitrogenous base, C10H14N2, isomeric with nicotine.

The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.

A passing from place to place. Dr. H. More.

aveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.…

In an itinerant manner.

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey. It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress. Bacon.

To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.

See Jauntiness.

The quality of being jaunty. That jauntiness of air I was once master of. Addison.

The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant.

One of a series of organic bases obtained by the reduction of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones. In general they are unstable oily substances having a pungent aromatic odor.

Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication. " Knottiness of his style." Hare.