Search the Dictionary

mely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and incivilities. Jer. Taylor.

The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

Uncivilly. [Obs.] Shak.

Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government. [R.] Macaulay.

Exclamation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

t to; to embrace or encircle. [Written also enclasp.] The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.

Not closing or shutting.

Set; fast; fixed. Dr. John Smith.

Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

Same as Inkle.

The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall.

ricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather. Cowper. The guard the wretched from the inclement sky. Pope. Teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow! Milton.

In an inclement manner.

Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley.

The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.

The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.

Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.

om a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively inclined." Cowper.

One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.