INJUNCTION-INKINESS.

INJUNCTION, in-junk'shun, s. (injunctio, Lat.) A command; order; precept; the direction of a superior vested with authority; urgent advice or exhortation of persons not vested with absolute authority to command. In Law, a prohibitory writ, granted by a court of equity against one or more parties to a suit, forbidding certain acts to be done. A common injunction is that process which issues to restrain proceedings in a court of law, when a party, by fraud or accident, or otherwise, may have an advantage in proceedings in those courts, which must necessarily make them instruments of injustice; and thus, a court of equity, by granting an injunction, prevents such ill consequences. A special injunction is that process which is granted upon special or urgent occasions; as when an extensive injury is about to be inflicted upon the property of another, as by felling timber, pulling down buildings, and the like.-3 Bl. 442. INJURE, in'jur, v. a. (French.) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness; to damage or lessen the value of; to slander, tarnish, or impair; to diminish; to annoy; to give pain to; to grieve; to hurt or weaken; to impair; to violate; to affect with any inconvenience. INJURER, in jur-ur, s. One who injures or wrongs. INJURIOUS, in-joo're-us, a. (injurius, Lat.) Unjust; hurtful to the rights of another; guilty of wrong or injury; mischievous; unjustly hurtful; detractory; contumelious; reproachful; wrongful. INJURIOUSLY, in-joo're-us-le, ad. With injustice; wrongfully; hurtfully; mischievously. INJURIOUSNESS, in-joo're-us-nes, s. The quality of being injurious or hurtful; injury. INJURY, in'ju-re, s. (injuria, Lat.) Any wrong or damage done to one's person, rights, reputation, or goods; mischief; detriment; annoyance. INJUSTICE, in-jus'tis, s. (French, injustitia, Lat.) Iniquity; wrong; any violation of another's rights; the withholding from another merited praise, or ascribing to him unmerited blame.

INK, ingk, s. (inkt, Dut. encre, Fr.) A liquor used in writing, generally black. The name is also applied to liquids and pigments of various colours, used in printing, &c., as well as writing. Inkbag, an apparatus in the form of a bag, contained in the viscera of the sepio, from which, when pursued by its enemies, it discharges a substance resembling ink, with which it darkens the water, and saves itself from destruction. Ink-stones, a kind of small round stones, of a white, red, grey, yellow, or black colour, containing a quantity of native martial vitriol, from which they derive the property of making ink, and hence their name. They are almost entirely soluble in water, and, besides their other ingredients, contain also a portion of copper and zinc;-v. a. to black or daub with ink.

INKING-INLIST.

INKING, ingk'ing, s. The act of supplying or spreading ink. Inking-roller, a roller supported on a spindle with handles, used by letterpress printers to supply the types with ink. Inkingtable, a table of a peculiar construction, used by letterpress printers to supply the roller with the requisite quantity of ink during the process of printing.

INKLE, ing'kl, 8. A kind of narrow fillet; tape. Inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns-why, he sings them over as they were gods and goddesses.-Shaks. INKLING, ingk'ling, s. A hint or whisper; an intimation; inclination; desire. INKMAKER, ingk’may-kur, s. One whose profession is to manufacture ink.

INKNIT, in-nit', v. a. To knit in. INKNOT, in-not', v. a. To bind as with a knot. INKSTAND, ingk'stand, 8. A vessel for holding ink. INKY, ingk'e, a. Consisting of ink; resembling ink; black; soiled or blackened with ink. INLACE, in-lase', v. a. To embellish with variegations.

Ropes of pearl her neck and breast inlace.P. Fletcher. INLAGATION, in-la-ga'shun, s. In Law, the restitution of one outlawed to the king's protection, or to the benefit or condition of a subject. INLAID. Past part. of the verb To inlay. INLAND, in'land, a. Interior; remote from the sea; within land; remote from the ocean; carried on within a country; domestic; not foreign; confined to a country; drawn and payable in the same country;-s. the interior part of a country. Inland bills of exchange, bills of exchange are so called when the drawer and drawee are both resident within the kingdom where drawn. INLANDER, in'lan-dur, s.

One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea. INLANDISH, in'lan-dish, a. Denoting something inland; native.

INLAPIDATE, in-lap'e-date, v. a. To convert into
a stony substance; to petrify.-Obsolete.
Some natural springs will inlapidate wood.-Bacon.
To clear of outlawry or at-

INLAW, in-law', v. a.

tainder.-Seldom used.

INLAYER, in-laʼur, s. The person who inlays. The art of taking away INLAYING, in-la'ing, s. part of the surface of a body, and substituting some other more ornamental material. INLEASED, in-leezd', a. In Law, entangled or ensnared a term used in the champion's oath.Obsolete.

INLET, in'let, s. A passage or opening, by which an enclosed place may be entered; place of ingress; entrance; a bay or recess in the shore of the sea, or of a lake or large river, or between isles.

IN LIMINE, in lim'e-ne, (Latin.) Signifying at the threshold; at the beginning or outset. INLIST.-See Enlist.

INLISTMENT-INNINGS.

INLISTMENT.-See Enlistment.

INNOCENCE-INNOXIOUSLY.

INNOCENCE, in'no-sens, s. (innocence, Fr. inno

INLY, in'le, a. Internal; interior; secret;-ad. internally; within; in the heart; secretly.

INMACY, in'ma-se, s. The state of being an inmate. INMATE, in'mate, s. A person who lodges or dwells in the same house with another; a lodger; one who lives with a family;-a. admitted as a dweller.

INMOST, in'moste, a.

Deepest within; remotest from the surface or external part. INN, in, s. (Saxon.) A house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers; a college of municipal or common law professors and students. Inns of court, in Law, four societies in London for students at law, qualifying themselves to be called to the bar; viz. the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn: they are so called because the students therein study the law, to enable them to practise in the courts at Westminster or elsewhere; and also because they use all other gentle exercises as may render them better qualified to serve the king in his court. Inns of chancery, are societies subordinate to the Inns of court, and principally occupied by the inferior branches of the profession: they are Clifford's Inn, Clement's Inn, Lion's Inn, New Inn, Furnival's Inn, Thavies Inn, Staple's Inn, and Barnard's Inn. The three first belong to the Inner Temple, the fourth to the Middle Temple, the two next to Lincoln's Inn, and the last two to Gray's Inn;— v. n. to take up lodging; to lodge ;-v. a. to house; to put under cover.

He that ears my land, spares my team, and gives me leave to in the crop.-Shaks.

INNATE, in-nate', a. (innatus, Lat.) Inborn; native; natural. Innate ideas, certain ideas supposed to be stamped on the mind from its first existence, a theory completely overthrown by John

Locke.

INNATED.-See Innate.

INNATELY, in-nate'le, ad. Naturally.
INNATENESS, in-nate'nes, s. The quality of being

innate.

INNAVIGABLE, in-nav'e-ga-bl, a. (innavigabilis, Lat.) That cannot be navigated; impassible by ships or vessels.

INNER, in'nur, a. Interior; farther inward than something else; internal; not outward. Inner plate, in Architecture, the wall-plate in a doubleplated roof, which lies nearest the centre of the roof.

Inner square, the edges forming the internal right angle of the instrument called a square. INNERLY, in'nur-le, ad. More within. INNERMOST, in'nur-moste, a. Farthest inward; inost remote from the outward part. INNERVATION, in-ner-va'shun, s. A state of weakness; act of strengthening.

INNERVE, in-nerv', r. a. To give nerve to; to invigorate; to strengthen. INNHOLDER, in'holde-ur, s. A person who keeps INNKEEPER, in'keep-ur, an inn or house for the entertainment of travellers; also, a tavern-keeper. INNING, in'ning, s. The ingathering of grain; a term in cricket for using the bat in turn. For why, my inning's at an end;

The earl has caught my ball.-Duncombe. INNINGS, in'ningz, s. Lands recovered from the

sea.

from injurious action; untainted integrity; freedom from guilt imputed; harmlessness; simplicity of heart; innoxiousness.

We laugh at the malice of apes, as well as at the innocence of children.- Temple. INNOCENT, in'no-sent, a. (French, innocens, Lat.) Not noxious; not producing injury; free from qualities that can injure or produce mischief; free from any particular guilt; pure; upright; not tainted with sin; lawful; perinitted; harinless; -s. one free from guilt or harm; a natural; an idiot;-(obsolete in the last two senses.)

Innocents are excluded by natural defects.-Hooker. Innocents' day, a festival of the church, observed on the 28th of December, in memory of the massacre of the innocent children by the command of Herod, king of Judea.

INNOCENTLY, in'no-sent-le, ad. Without harin; without incurring guilt; with simplicity; without evil design; without incurring a forfeiture or penalty. INNOCUOUS, in-nok'u-ns, a. (innocuus, Lat.) HarmINNOCUOUSLY, in-nok'u-us-le, ad. Without harm; less; safe; producing no ill effect; innocent. without injurious effects. INNOCUOUSNESS, in-nok'u-us-nes, s. Harmlessness; the quality of being destitute of mischievous, qualities or effects. INNOMINABLE, in-nom'e-na-bl, a. Not to be named.

Foule things innominable.-Chaucer. INNOMINATE, in-nom'e-nate, a. Having no name; anonymous.

Places formerly innominate. -Sir T. Herbert. INNOMINATUS, in-nom-e-na'tus, a. (Latin, without a name.) In Anatomy, an epithet applied to various parts, as-Innominata arteria, that branch given off to the right by the arch of the aorta, which subsequently divides into the carotid and subclavian. Innominati nervi, a name formerly! given to the fifth pair of nerves. Innominatum os, a bone composed of three portions, viz.: the ilium, or haunch-bone; the ischium, or hip-bone; and the os pubis, or share-bone. INNOTESCIMUS, in-no-tes'se-mus, s. (Latin.) In Law, this word and videmus are all one: it signifies letters patent, so called, which are always of a charter of feoffment, or soine other instrument, not of record, concluding innotescimus per præsentes, &c.-Cowel.

INNOVATE, in'no-vate, v. a. (innover, Fr. innovo, Lat.) To change or alter by introducing something new; to bring in something new ;—r. a. to introduce novelties; to make changes in anything established.

INNOVATION, in-no-va'shun, s. Change made by the introduction of something new; change in established laws, customs, rites, or practices. INNOVATOR, in'no-vay-tur, s. An introducer of novelties; one who introduces changes or something new.

INNOXIOUS, in-nok'shus, a. (innoxius, Lat.) Free from mischievous qualities; innocent; harmless; not producing evil; harmless in effects; free from crime; pure. INNOXIOUSLY, in-nok'shus-le, ad. Harmlessly; without mischief; without harın suffered.

INNOXIOUSNESS-INOCULATE.

INNOXIOUSNESS, in-nok'shus-nes, s. Harmless-

ness.

INNUENDO, in-nu-en ́do, s. (from innuo, I nod, Lat.)
An oblique hint; a remote intimation or reference
to a person or thing not named. In Law, a word
used in declarations and law pleadings to ascertain
a person or thing which was named before, as to
say he (innuendo, that is, meaning the plaintiff)
did so and so, when there was mention before of
another person.

INNUENT, in'nu-ent, a. (innuens, Lat.) Significant.
He may apply his mind to heraldry, antiquity, innuent
impresses, emblems.-Burton.

INNUMERABILITY, in-nu-mur-a-bil'e-te, s. State
INNUMERABLENESS, in-nu ́mur-a-bl-nes,) of being
innumerable.

INNUMERABLE, in-nu'mur-a-bl, a. (innumerabilis,
Lat.) Not to be counted; that cannot be innu-
merated or numbered for multitude.
INNUMERABLY, in-nuʼmur-a-ble, ad. Without
number.

INNUMEROUS, in-nu'mur-us, a. (innumerus, Lat.)
Too many to be counted or numbered; innumerable.
INNUTRITION, in-nu-trish'un, s. Want of nutri-
tion; failure of nourishment.

INOCULATION-INORDINATELY.

INOCULATION, in-ok-u-la'shun, s. (inoculatio, Lat.)
The act or practice of inserting buds of one plant
upon the stock of another; the practice of com-
municating a disease, particularly the small-pox,
by insertion of contagious matter. Inoculation of
grass lands, in Agriculture, the turning a ploughed
field into a meadow.

INOCULATOR, in-ok'u-lay-tur, s. One who inocu-
lates.

INODIATE, in-o'de-ate, v. a. To make odious or

not imparting nourishment.

ness; the quality of giving no offence.

not imparting nourishment.

INO, i'no, 8. In Fabulous History, a daughter of
Cadmus and Harmonia, who nursed Bacchus.
INOA, i-no'a, s. Festivals in memory of Ino, cele-
brated yearly with sports and sacrifices at Corinth.
INOBEDIENCE.-See Disobedience.
INOBEDIENT.-See Disobedient.

INOBSERVABLE, in-ob-zer'va-bl, a. That cannot
be observed.

INOBSERVANCE, in-ob-zerʼvans, s. Want of ob-
servance; negligence.

INOBSERVANT, in-ob-zer'vant, a. Not taking no-
tice; heedless; negligent.
INOBSERVATION, in-ob-zer-va'shun, s. Neglect or
want of observation.
INOBTRUSIVE.-See Unobtrusive.
INOBTRUSIVELY.-See Unobtrusively.
INOBTRUSIVENESS.-See Unobtrusiveness.
INOCARPUS, in-o-kăr'pus, s. (is inos, a fibre, and
karpos, a fruit, Gr. the nut being full of fibres.)
The Otaheite chesnut, a genus of trees, with al-
ternate leaves, and axillary racemes of yellow
flowers.

INOCCUPATION, in-ok-u-pa'shun, s. Want of oc-
cupation.

INOCERAMUS, in-o-ser-aʼmus, s. A genus of fossil
bivalves, the shells of which are cardiform and
thick; the umbones lateral, rather prominent, and
incurved; the hinge short, and formed of a series
of short transverse grooves.
INOCULABLE, in-ok ́u-la-bl, a. That may be
inoculated; that may communicate disease by
inoculation.

INOCULATE, in-ok'u-late, v. a. (inoculo, from in,
and oculus, the eye, Lat.) To insert, so that the
eye of a bud shall be fixed in another stock; to
insert in something different, as a bud into the
stem of another plant; to communicate a disease,
particularly the small-pox, by inserting matter
into the flesh. When the matter inserted is
direct from the cow-pox, the operation is termed
vaccination; —v. n. to practise inoculation.

Not officious; not
proceeding from the proper officer; not furnished
with the usual forms of authority, or not done in
an official character.
INOFFICIALLY, in-of-fish'al-le, ad.

Without the

usual forms; not in an official character.
INOFFICIOUS, in-of-fish'us, a. Unkind; regardless
of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty;
Let not a father hope to excuse an inofficious disposi-
tion of his fortune, by alleging that every man may do
what he will with his own.-Paley.

unfit for an office;

Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep.-
Ben Jonson.
not civil or attentive.
INOPERATION, in-op-er-a'shun, s. Agency; influ-
ence; production of effects.-Obsolete.

Here is not a cold and feeble prevention, but an effec-
tual inoperation, yea, a powerful creation.-Bp. Hall.
This word may also signify the want of operation,
but the definition given is the sense which it takes
when the prefix in has its positive meaning.
INOPERATIVE, in-op'ur-ay-tiv, a. Having no ope-
ration; producing no effect.

INOPINATE, in-op'e-nate, a. (inopinatus, Lat.) Not
expected. Obsolete.

INOPPORTUNE, in-op-por-tune', a. (inopportunus,
Lat.) Not opportune; unseasonable.
INOPPORTUNELY, in-op-por-tune'le, ad. Unsea-
sonably.
Not oppressive;

Not opulent or

INOPPRESSIVE, in-op-pres'siv, a.
not burdensome.
INOPULENT, in-op'u-lent, a.
wealthy.
INORDINACY, in-awr'de-na-se, s. Irregularity;
deviation from order or rule; disorder; excess or
want of moderation.
INORDINATE, in-awr'de-nate, a. (inordinatus, Lat.)
Irregular; disorderly; excessive; immoderate.
Inordinate proportion, in Geometry, a proportion
in which the terms are placed out of their regular
order.
INORDINATELY, in-awr'de-nate-le, ad. Irregularly;
excessively; immoderately.

tion from order; excess; want of moderation; intemperance of desire.

INORDINATION, in-awr-de-na'shun, s. Irregularity;

deviation from rule or right.

INORGANIC, in-awr-gan ́ik,
INORGANICAL, in-awr-gan'e-kal,

a. Not organized; not possessing the organs peculiar to animal and vegetable existence.

INORGANICALLY, in-awr-gan'e-kal-le, ad. Without organization.

INORGANIZED, in-awr'ga-nizde, a. Not having an organic structure, as earths, metals, and other minerals.

INOSCULATE, in-os'ku-late, v. n. (in, and osculatus, kissed, Lat.) In Anatomy, to unite by opposition or contact, as two vessels at their extremities; -v. a. to unite; to insert, as in inosculation. INOSCULATION, in-os-ku-la'shun, s. Union by junction of the extremities, as in veins or arteries. | INPENNY and OUTPENNY. In Law, money which, by the custom of some manors, is paid by the tenants on alienating their estates.-Cowel. INQUEST, in'kwest, s. (inquisitio, Lat.) Judicial inquiry or examination; search; a jury summoned to inquire into any matter, particularly any case of violent or sudden death, and give in their opinion on oath.

INQUIET, in-kwi'et, v. a. To disturb; to trouble. INQUIETATION, in-kwi-e-ta'shun, s. Disturbance. -Obsolete.

INQUIETUDE, in-kwi'e-tude, s. (inquietudo, Lat.) Disturbed state; restlessness; disquietude. INQUINATE, in'kwe-nate, v. a. (inquino, Lat.) To defile; to pollute; to contaminate.

INQUISITION AL-INSAPORY.

tries, for the examination and punishment of heretics. Inquisition of office, the act of a jury | summoned by the proper officer to inquire of matters relating to the crown upon evidence laid before them; as to inquire whether the king's tenant for life died seised, whereby the reversion would accrue to the king; or whether A., who held immediately of the crown, died without heirs, in which case the land would belong to the crown by escheat. Inquisitio ex officio mero, is one way of proceeding in ecclesiastical courts; and it is said, that formerly the oath ex officio was a sort of inquisition.-4 Bl. 301. INQUISITIONAL, in-kwe-zish'un-al, a. Making inquiry; busy in inquiry. INQUISITIVE, in-kwiz'e-tiv, a. Apt to ask questions; addicted to inquiry; given to research ;s. a person who is inquisitive;-(obsolete ;)—one curious in research.

INQUISITIVELY, in-kwiz'e-tiv-le, ad. With curiosity to obtain information; with scrutiny. INQUISITIVENESS, in-kwiz'e-tiv-nes, s. The disposition to obtain information by asking questions, or by researches into facts, causes, or principles; | curiosity to learn what is not known; a prying disposition.

INQUISITOR, in-kwiz'e-tur, s. One who inquires or examines officially; a member of a court of inquisition.

INQUISITORIAL, in-kwiz-e-to're-al, a. Pertaining to inquisition; pertaining to a court of inquisition. INQUISITORIOUS, in-kwiz-e-to're-us, a. Making

strict inquiry.-Seldom used.

Under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can ever flourish. — Milton.

filing; pollution; corruption. INQUIRABLE, in-kwi'ra-bl, u. That may be inquired into; subject to inquiry. INQUIRE, in-kwire', v. n. (inquiro, Lat.) To ask a question; to seek for truth or facts by investigation;v. a. to seek out by asking, as to inquire the way to a place. In this, however, and all others of the same kind, the expression is elliptical, and the verb, strictly speaking, neuter. INQUIRENDO, in-kwe-ren'do, s. (Latin.) In Law, an authority given to some person or persons to inquire into something for the king's advantage. INQUIRENT, in-kwi'rent, s. Making inquiry. Delia's eye,

As in a garden, roves, of hues alone
Inquirent, curious.-Shenstone.

INQUIRER, in-kwi'rur, s. One who inquires; one
who searches or examines; one who searches for
knowledge or information.
INQUIRING, in-kwi'ring, a.

Given to inquiry; disposed and inclined to investigate, as an inquiring mind.

INQUIRINGLY, in-kwi'ring-le, ad. By way of inquiry.

INQUIRY, in-kwi're, s. The act of inquiring; interrogation; search for truth, information, or knowledge; research. Writ of inquiry, a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to summon a jury, and to inquire into the amount of damages due from the defendant to the plaintiff in a given action.

INQUISITION, in-kwe-zish'un, s. (inquisitio, Lat.) Inquiry; examination; judicial inquiry; a court or tribunal, established in some Catholic coun

rails.

INREGISTER, in-rej'is-tur, v. a. (enregistrer, Fr.)
To register; to record in a register.
INROAD, in'rode, s. Incursion; sudden and desul-
tory invasion of a country or district.
INSAFETY, in-safe'te, s. Want of safety.-Seldom

used.

INSALIVATION, in-sal-e-va'shun, s.

In Physiology, the admixture of saliva with the aliment during the act of mastication. INSALUBRIOUS, in-sa-lu'bre-us, a. Not salubrious; not healthful; unfavourable to health; unwhole

some.

INSALUBRITY, in-sa-lu'bre-te, s. Want of salubrity; unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness. INSALUTARY, in-sal'u-ta-re, a. Not favourable to health or soundness; not tending to safety; productive of evil.

INSANABILITY, in-san-a-bil'e-te, 8. State of being INSANABLENESS, in-san'a-bl-nes, incurable. INSANABLE, in-sanʼa-bl, a. (insanabilis, Lat.) Incurable; that cannot be healed. INSANABLY, in-san'a-ble, ad. In such a state as to be incurable.

INSANE, in-sane', a. (insanus, Lat.) Unsound in mind or intellect; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.

INSANELY, in-sane'le, ad. Madly; foolishly; with

out reason.

INSANENESS, in-sane'nes, s. The state of being INSANITY, in-san'e-te, Sunsound in mind; derangement of intellect; madness.

INSAPORY, in-sap'o-re, a. Tasteless; wanting flavour.---Obsolete.

INSATIABLE-INSECT.

INSATIABLE, in-sa'she-a-bl, a. (French.) Incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy. INSATIABLENESS, in-sa'she-a-bl-nes, s. Greediness of appetite that cannot be satisfied or appeased.

INSATIABLY, in-sa'she-a-ble, ad. With greediness not to be satisfied.

INSATIATE, in-sa'she-ate, a. (insatiatus, Lat.) Not to be satisfied; insatiable.

Insatiate to pursue

Vain war with heaven.-Mikon. INSATIATELY, in-sa'she-ate-le, ad. So greedily as not to be satisfied.

INSATIETY, in-sa-ti'e-te, s. Insatiableness. INSATISFACTION, in-sat-is-fak'shun, 8. Want of satisfaction.

INSATURABLE, in-sat'u-ra-bl, a. (insaturabilis, Lat.)
Not to be saturated, filled, or glutted.
INSCIENCE, in-si'ens, s. Ignorance; want of know-
ledge.

INSCRIBABLE, in-skri'ba-bl, a. (in, on, and scribo,
I write, Lat.) That may be inscribed.
INSCRIBABLENESS, in-skri'ba-bl-nes, 8. State of
being inscribable.

INSCRIBE, in-skribe', v. a. To write on; to engrave on for perpetuity or duration; to imprint on; to assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to mark with letters, characters, or words; to draw a figure within another. Inscribed figure, in Geometry, a circle which touches each of the three sides of a triangle. INSCRIBER, in-skri'bur, s. One who inscribes. INSCRIPTION, in-skrip'shun, s. (French.) Something written or engraved to communicate knowledge to after ages; any character, word, line, or sentence, written or engraved on a solid substance for duration; a title; an address, or consignment of a book to a person.

The

INSCRIPTIVE, in-skrip'tiv, a. Bearing inscription. INSCROLL, in-skrole', v. a. To write on a scroll. INSCRUTABILITY, in-skroo-ta-bil'e-te, s. INSCRUTABLENESS, in-skroo'ta-bl-nes, quality of being inscrutable.

INSCRUTABLE, in-skroo'ta-bl, a. (French, inscruta-
bilis, Lat.) Unsearchable; not to be traced out
by inquiry or study; that cannot be penetrated,
discovered, or understood by human reason.
INSCRUTABLY, in-skroo'ta-ble, ad. So as not to be
traced out or understood.
INSCULP, in-skulp', v. a. (insculpo, Lat.) To en-
grave; to carve.

A coin that bears the figure of an angel
Stamped in gold; but that's insculp'd upon.--

Shaks.

What is to have

A flattering, false insculption on a tomb, And in men's hearts reproach.-Tourneur. INSCULPTURE, in-skulp'ture, s. An engraving; sculpture.

INSCULPTURED, in-skulp'turde, a. Engraved. INSEAM, in-seme', v. a. To impress or mark by a seam or cicatrix.

INSEARCH, in-sertsh', v. a. To make search.-Obsolete.

INSECABLE, in-sekʼa-bl, a. (insecabilis, Lat.) That cannot be divided by a cutting instrument; indivisible.

INSECT, in'sekt, s. (in, and seco, I cut, Lat.) A

6 P

INSECTA-INSENSIBILITY.

small winged or creeping animal; anything small or contemptible;-a. small; mean; contemptible.

INSECTA, in-sek'ta, 8. The third class of articuINSECTS, in'sekts, lated animals, consisting of such as have articulated legs, and a dorsal vessel analogous to a heart, but are totally destitute of any branch for the circulation of the blood. They respire by means of three principal traches, extending parallel to each other throughout the whole length of the body, having centres at intervals, from which proceed numerous branches, corresponding to external openings, or stigmata, which admit air. They all have two antennæ and a distinct head. Insects undergo what is termed metamorphosis: the first state of which is that of the larvae; the second, pupa or chrysalis; and the third, the imago or perfect insect. All insects do not pass through these states. The Aptera issue from the ovum with the form they always possess, and some which have wings undergo no other change than that of receiving them. INSECTATOR, in-sek-ta'tur, s. (Latin.) A persecutor.-Obsolete.

INSECTED, in-sek'ted, a. Having the nature of an insect.

We can hardly endure the sting of that small insected animal the bee.-Howell. INSECTILE, in-sek'til, a. Having the nature of insects;-s. an insect.-Obsolete as a substantive. The ant, and silkworm, and many such insectiles.

Smith.

INSECTION, in-sek'shun, 8. A cutting in; incisure; incision.

INSECTIVORA, in-sek-tiv'o-ra, s. (insect, and vora, I eat, Lat.) Insect-eaters, a family of the Carnaria of Cuvier, which live chiefly on insects, and lead a nocturnal or subterraneous life, and some of which, in cold climates, live in a dormant state during winter. The moles, shrews, and hedgehogs belong to this family. The name is likewise given by Timminck to an order of birds which feed on insects, as the Hirundinidæ, or Swallows.

INSECTIVOROUS, in-sek-tiv'o-rus, a. Feeding or subsisting on insects.

INSECTOLOGER, in-sek-tol'o-jur, s. (insect, and logos, a treatise, Gr.) One who studies or describes insects.

INSECURE, in-se-kure', a. Not secure; not confident of safety; not safe; not effectually guarded or protected; exposed to danger or loss. INSECURELY, in-se-kure'le, ad. Without security or safety.

INSECURITY, in-se-ku're-te, s. Uncertainty; want

of confidence; want of safety; danger; hazard; exposure to destruction or loss.

INSECUTION, in-se-ku'shun, s. (insecutio, Latin.)
Pursuit.-Obsolete.

Not the king's own horse got more before the wheel
Of his rich chariot, that might still the insecution feel
With the extreme hairs of his tail.-Chapman.
INSEMINATE, in-sem'e-nate, v. a. (insemino, Lat.)
To sow.-Obsolete.

INSEMINATION, in-sem-e-na'shun, s. The act of sowing.

INSENSATE, in-senʼsate, a. (insense, Fr.) Destitute of sense; stupid; foolish; wanting sensibility. INSENSIBILITY, in-sen-se-bil'e-te, s. Inability to perceive; want of the power to be moved or

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