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me liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure I know not what I shall incur to passShak.

The state of being uncurable; irremediableness. Harvey.

Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.

The state of being incurable; incurability. Boyle.

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.

Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.

t care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless. Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their children. Jer. Taylor.

In an curious manner.

Unconcernedness; incuriosity. Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. Bp. Hall.

The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc.

Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.

ntion; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot.

Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile.

To curtain. [Obs.]

Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.

The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham.

To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards. Sir T. Browne.

To incur again.