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To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.

To poison; to imbitter; to impair.

A poisoner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fi.

The act of poisoning or impoisoning. [Obs.] Pope.

To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser.

One who imprisons.

The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the pu…

Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement.

Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant. -- In*con"so*nant*ly, adv.

Not clear or melodious.

Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.

A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.

Having, or indicating, an equal amount of cloudiness for a given period; as, isonephelic regions; an isonephelic line.

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

Pertaining to, or derived from, isonicotine.

Pertaining to, or designating, the characteristic, nitrogenous radical, NOH, called the isonitroso group.

The same, or equal, in law or right; one in kind or origin; analogous; similar. Dana.

Equal law or right; equal distribution of rights and privileges; similarity.