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. A form of the prefix in-, not, and in-, among. See In-.

A small water bird. See Dabchick.

Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious. Shak.

Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed. Bacon. -- E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.

ositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked. -- E"vil-mind`ed*ness, n.

An intimate companion. Hail-fellow well met. Lyly.

A chiton.

Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail. Nail-headed characters, arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under Arrowheaded. -- Nail-headed molding (Arch.), an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large nails; -- called also nail-head…

A circular or oval window; -- generally used of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening into it.

Having a brownish red color; -- used esp. of light-colored red wine.

Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.

Slow-moving, like a snail. Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.

One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.

Water in a tailrace.

The lofty Brazil-nut tree.

ch consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Ba…

n Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

etony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

l form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.