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A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Cheat; deception. [Obs.] Sir T. Brown.

Entrance; ingress. [Obs.] Which hath in charge the ingate of the year. Spenser.

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.

Not congealable.

To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. . . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys.

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

The gorilla.

See Engender.

Incapacity of being engendered or produced. Cudworth.

Incapble of being engendered or produced; original. Holland.

In an ingenerable manner.

Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.

Act of ingenerating.

To invent; to contrive. [Obs.] Daniel.

See Ingeny.

Ingenuity; skill; cunning. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic. A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war. Hakluyt. Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious. Shak. The more ingenious men are, the…

In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly. "Too ingeniously politic." Sir W. Temple.

The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.