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Azure-colored; of a bright blue color. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

See Endear.

To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.

ation; held to payment or requital; beholden. By owing, owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged. Milton.

The state of being indebted.

Indebtedness. [R.] Bp. Hall.

See Indecency. [Obs.] "An indecence of barbarity." Bp. Burnet.

The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.

Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language. Cowper.

In an indecent manner.

Indeciduous.

the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial. The indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. Sir T. Browne.

Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes. Cowell.

Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.

Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it. Shenstone. Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence.…

Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer. The campaign had everywhere been indecisive. Macaulay.

Without decision.

The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.

t declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. -- n.

Without variation.