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Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

One who hurries or urges.

A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.

roper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners.

Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.

Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.

To render more grievous; to aggravate. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Inquisitorial. [Obs.] "Our inquisiturient bishops." Milton.

Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.

Between the parietal bones or cartilages; as, the interparietal suture. -- n.

t think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.

The state or quality of being irretrievable.

In an irretrievable manner.

The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants.

Sweetmeats. [Obs.]

A short club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa.

A game of war, played for practice, on maps. Farrow.

See Kyrie eleison.