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The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that…

Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.

Idealism. J. Grote.

Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word. In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitues an important element. Mure.

he mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak.

One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon.

Imaginative. [R.] Chapman.

Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.

Not devirginate. [Obs.] Chapman.

Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain.

Unimaginable; inconceivable. [R.] Bp. Pearson.

Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.

Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a steam- engine boiler. The gas used may be a fixed gas, or one deriv…

Situated within the margin. Loudon.

To insert as in a sheath; to pr

Sheathed.

The condition of an invaginated organ or part.

rating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water. Jigging machine. (a) (Mining) A machine for separating ore by the process of jigging. (b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a templet by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; -- used for formin…

The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog.