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By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.

The quality or state of being inalienable.

Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.

In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.

Not admitting relief; incurable; hopeless.

Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Brought to the state or consistence of jelly.

A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting. -- Kite"fli`er, n.

A neck ornament consisting of a chain and single pendant, or drop.

Covered with, or having many, lilies. By sandy Ladon's lilied banks. Milton.

A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.

Mezzo-rilievo.

A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief.

Environment.

A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.