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Not in a state suitable for healing; -- said of wounds.

To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.

A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.

r dart. Shak. The fatal dart a ready passage found, And deep within her heart infixed the wound. Dryden.

or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal. What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire disgrace Drygen. The persecution…

ence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue.…

at the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible. C. A. Young. Insulated wire, wire wound with silk, or covered with other nonconducting material, for electrical use.

species, genus, whiteness. -- To heal by the first intention (Surg.), to cicatrize, as a wound, without suppuration. -- To heal by the second intention (Surg.), to unite after suppuration.

anding; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak.

Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. He tried a third, a tough, well-chosen spear, The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden.…

A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.

Incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury. Neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms. Milton.

analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

xcitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Shak.

Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t.

A bow he bare and arwes [arrows] bright and kene. Chaucer. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. Shak.

owers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers.

Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.