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Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric.

Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.

The eland. [Written also impoofoo.]

Want of proficiency. [R.] Bacon.

Unprofitable. [Obs.]

A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, and I. Anil.

See Enfeoff.

See Enfeoffment.

Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering.

Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.

Indifferent to obligation or duty. [Obs.] Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. B. Jonson.

Not-officiously.

Flexed or bent inward.

A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

A light powder used as a substitute for iodoform. It is a compound of iodoform and albumin.

A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes. Massinger.

An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.

A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end. [South Africa]

That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.