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Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidæ, or Snail family. Helicoid parabola (Math.), the parabolic spiral.

Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

oken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.

he common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertil…

e that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.

or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton.

An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.

Peerless; incomparable. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not discerpible; inseparable. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. -- In`dis*cerp"i*ble*ness, n., In`dis*cerp"ti*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- In`dis*cerp"ti*bly, adv. [Obs.]

In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individuallyhe same. [Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill.

The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke.

Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.

art of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. Such is the infatuation of self-love. Blair.

human life. Addison. And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow.

Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield. [Scotland] Jamieson.

The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. Jer. Taylor.

Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most inherent baseness." Shak. The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. Sout…

By inherence; inseparably. Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy. Bentley.

Inseparably. [Obs.] Cranmer.

Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. De Quincey.