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An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. [Scot.]

To lodge in a chamber. [R.] Sherwood.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.

See Enchant.

Uncharitable; unfeeling. [Obs.] Shak.

Want of charity. [Obs.] Evelyn.

See Enchase.

Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.

Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge. Shak.

To put into a chest.

See Inchpin.

A piece an inch long. By inchmeal, by small degrees; by inches. Shak.

lements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.

. The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale. It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. I. Taylor.

Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. "Some inchoative or imperfect rays." W. Montagu. -- n.

The sweetbread of a deer. Cotgrave.

The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.

A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.