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Interpreting

INTER'PRETING, participle present tense Explaining; expounding; translating.

Interpunction

INTERPUNC'TION, noun [Latin interpunctio, interpungo; inter and pungo, to point.] The making of points between sentences or parts of a sentence. But punctuation is generally used.

Interregnum

INTERREG'NUM, noun [Latin inter and regnum, rule or reign.] The time in which a throne is vacant, between the death or abdication of a king and the accession of his successor. An interregnum in strictness, can happen only in governments where the king is elective; for in hereditary kingdoms, the reign of the successor commences at the moment of his predecessor; s death or demise. The word however is used with more latitude.

Interreign

INTERREIGN, noun interra'ne. An interregnum, or vacancy of the throne.

Interrer

INTER'RER, noun [from inter.] One that inters or buries.

Interrex

IN'TERREX, noun [Latin inter and rex, king.] A regent; a magistrate that governs during an interregnum.

Interrogate

INTER'ROGATE, verb transitive [Latin interrogo; inter and rogo, to ask.]

To question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

INTER'ROGATE, verb intransitive To ask questions.

Interrogated

INTER'ROGATED, participle passive Examined by questions.

Interrogating

INTER'ROGATING, participle present tense Asking questions of one; examining by questions.

Interrogation

INTERROGA'TION, noun The act of questioning; examination by questions.

1. A question put; inquiry.

2. A note that marks a question; as, does Job serve God for naught?

Interrogative

INTERROG'ATIVE, adjective Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as an interrogative phrase or sentence.

INTERROG'ATIVE, noun A word used in asking questions; as who? what? which? why?

Interrogatively

INTERROG'ATIVELY, adverb In the form of a question.

Interrogator

INTER'ROGATOR, noun One who asks questions.

Interrogatory

INTERROG'ATORY, noun A question or inquiry. In law, a particular question to a witness, who is to answer it under the solemnities of an oath. This may be in open court or before commissioners.

INTERROG'ATORY, adjective Containing a question; expressing a question; as an interrogatory sentence.

Interrupt

INTERRUPT', verb transitive [Latin interrumpo, interruptus; inter and rumpo, to break.]

1. To stop or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of any thing; to break the current or motion of; as a fall of rain interrupted our journey. There was not a tree nor a bush to interrupt the charge of the enemy. The speaker was interrupted by shouts of acclamation. We apply the word both to the agent and to his progress. We say, an alarm interrupted the speaker, or his arguments or discourse.

2. To divide; to separate; to break continuity or a continued series. The road was on a plain, not interrupted by a single hill, or interrupted here and there by a hill.

INTERRUPT', adjective Broken; containing a chasm.

Interrupted

INTERRUPT'ED, participle passive Stopped; hindered from proceeding.

Interruptedly

INTERRUPT'EDLY, adverb With breaks or interruptions.

Interrupter

INTERRUPT'ER, noun One that interrupts.

Interrupting

INTERRUPT'ING, participle present tense Hindering by breaking in upon.

Interruption

INTERRUP'TION, noun [Latin interruptio.]

1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon progression.

2. Breach of any thing extended; interposition; as an isle separated from the continent by the interruption of the sea.

3. Intervention; interposition.

Lest the interruption of time caused

4. Stop; hinderance; obstruction caused by breaking in upon any course, current, progress or motion. An interruption may be temporary or durable. The work of the Erie canal has suffered few interruptions from storms and floods. The lava met with no interruption till it descended to the foot of the mountain. The author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work. The speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption

5. Stop; cessation; intermission.

Interscapular

INTERSCAP'ULAR, adjective [Latin inter and scapula, the shoulder-blade.] Situated between the shoulders.

Interscind

INTERSCIND', verb transitive [Latin inter and scindo.] To cut off.

Interscribe

INTERSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin inter and scribo.] To write between.

Intersecant

INTERSE'CANT, adjective [Latin intersecans, interseco; inter and seco, to cut.] Dividing into parts; crossing.

Intersect

INTERSECT', verb transitive [Latin interseco; inter, between, and seco, to cut.]

To cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts. Thus two lines or two planes may intersect each other. The ecliptic intersects the equator.

INTERSECT', verb intransitive To meet and cross each other; as, the point where two lines intersect [This is elliptical.]

Intersected

INTERSECT'ED, participle passive Cut or divided into parts; crossed.

Intersecting

INTERSECT'ING, participle present tense Cutting; crossing; as lines.

Intersection

INTERSEC'TION, noun [Latin intersectio.] The act or state of intersecting.

1. The point or line in which two lines or two planes cut each other.

Interseminate

INTERSEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin interseminatus; inter, between, and semino, to sow.] To sow between or among. [Little used.]

Intersert

INTERSERT', verb transitive [Latin intersero; inter, between, and sero, to throw.]

To set or put in between other things.

Intersertion

INTERSER'TION, noun An insertion, or thing inserted between other things.

Interspace

IN'TERSPACE, noun [inter and space.] A space between other things.

Intersperse

INTERSPERSE, verb transitive interspers'. [Latin interspersus; inter, between, and spargo, to scatter.] To scatter or set here and there among other things; as an able argument interspersed with flowers of rhetoric. intersperse shrubs among trees.

Interspersed

INTERSPERS'ED, participle passive Scattered or situated here and there among other things.

Interspersing

INTERSPERS'ING, participle present tense Scattering here and there among other things.

Interspersion

INTERSPER'SION, noun The act of scattering or setting here and there among other things.

Interstellar

INTERSTEL'LAR, adjective [Latin inter and stella, a star.] Situated beyond the solar system.

Interstice

IN'TERSTICE, noun [Latin interstitium; inter and sto, to stand.]

1. A space between things; but chiefly, a narrow or small space between things closely set, or the parts which compose a body. We speak of the interstices between the teeth, or between the parts of wood or stone.

2. Time between one act and another; interval.

Interstinctive

INTERSTINCT'IVE, adjective Distinguishing. [Not used.]

Interstitial

INTERSTI'TIAL, adjective Pertaining to or containing interstices.

Interstratified

INTERSTRA'TIFIED, adjective Stratified among or between other bodies.

Intertalk

INTERTALK, verb transitive intertauk'. To exchange conversation. [Not used.]

Intertangle

INTERTAN'GLE, verb transitive To intertwist; to entangle.

Intertexture

INTERTEX'TURE, noun [Latin intertextus; inter and texo, to weave.]act of interweaving, or the state of things interwoven.

Intertie

IN'TERTIE

INTERTROP'ICAL, adjective [inter and tropical.] Situated between the tropics.

Intertropical

INTERTROP'ICAL, a. [inter and tropical.] Situated between the tropics.

Intertwine

INTERTWI'NE, verb transitive [inter and twine.] To unite by twining or twisting one with another.

Intertwined

INTERTWI'NED, participle passive Twined or twisted one with another.

Intertwining

INTERTWI'NING, participle present tense Twining one with another.

Intertwist

INTERTWIST', verb transitive [inter and twist.] To twist one with another.

Intertwisted

INTERTWIST'ED, participle passive Twisted one with another.

Intertwisting

INTERTWIST'ING, participle present tense Twisting one with another.

Interval

IN'TERVAL, noun [Latin intervallum; inter and vallum, a wall, or vallus, a stake.

1. A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as an interval between two columns, between two pickets or palisades, between two houses or walls, or between two mountains or hills.

2. Space of time between any two points or events; as the interval between the death of Charles I. of England and the accession of Charles II.' the interval between two wars. Hence we say, an interval of peace.

3. The space of time between two paroxysms of disease, pain or delirium; remission; as an interval of ease, of peace, of reason.

4. The distance between two given sounds in music, or the difference in point of gravity or acuteness.

5. A tract of low or plain ground between hills, or along the banks of rivers, usually alluvial land enriched by the overflowings of rivers, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. [De. Belknap writes this intervale; I think improperly.]

Interveined

INTERVEINED, adjective [inter and vein.] Intersected as with veins.

Fair champaign with less rivers interveined

Intervene

INTERVE'NE, verb intransitive [Latin intervenio; inter and venio, to come.]

1. To come or be between persons or things; to be situated between. Thus the Atlantic intervenes between Europe and America; the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

2. To come between points or time or events; as the period that intervened between the treaty of Ryswick and the treaty of Utrecht.

3. To happen in a way to disturb, cross or interrupt. Events may intervene to frustrate our purposes or wishes.

4. To interpose or undertake voluntarily for another. A third party may intervene and accept a bill of exchange for another.

INTERVE'NE, noun A coming between. [Not used.]

Intervenient

INTERVE'NIENT, adjective Coming or being between; intercedent; interposed. [Little used.]

Intervening

INTERVE'NING, participle present tense or adjective Coming or being between persons or things, or between points of time; as intervening space or time; intervening events or misfortunes; intervening peace.

Intervention

INTERVEN'TION, noun [Latin interventio.]

1. A state of coming or being between; interposition. Light is not interrupted by the intervention of a transparent body.

2. Agency of persons between persons; interposition; mediation; any interference that may affect the interests of others.

Let us decide our quarrels at home without the intervention of a foreign power.

3. Agency of means or instruments; as, effects are produced by the intervention of natural causes.

4. Interposition in favor of another; a voluntary undertaking of one party for another. A bill of exchange may be accepted by the intervention of a third person in behalf of the drawer or of one of the indorsers.

Intervenue

INTERVEN'UE, noun Interposition. [Not used.]

Intervert

INTERVERT', verb transitive [Latin interverto; inter and verto, to turn.]

To turn to another course or to another use. [Little used.]

Interview

IN'TERVIEW, noun [inter and view.] A mutual sight or view; a meeting; usually a formal meeting for some conference on an important subject; hence the word implies a conference or mutual communication of thoughts. The envoy had an interview with the king or with the secretary of foreign affairs. The parties had an interview and adjusted their differences.

Intervolve

INTERVOLVE, verb transitive intervolv'. [Latin intervolvo; inter and volvo, to roll.] To involve one within another.

Intervolved

INTERVOLV'ED, participle passive Involved one within another; wrapped together.

Intervolving

INTERVOLV'ING, participle present tense Involving one within another.

Interweave

INTERWE'AVE, verb transitive preterit tense interwove; participle passive interwoven. [inter and weave.]

1. To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; as threads of silk and cotton interwoven.

2. To intermix; to set among or together; as a covert of interwoven trees.

3. To intermingle; to insert together; as, to interweave truth with falsehood.

Interweaving

INTERWE'AVING, participle present tense Weaving together.

INTERWE'AVING, noun Intertexture.

Interwish

INTERWISH', verb transitive [inter and wish.] To wish mutually to each other. [Little used.

Interworking

INTERWORK'ING, noun The act of working together.

Interwreathed

INTERWRE'ATHED, adjective Woven into a wreath.

Intestable

INTEST'ABLE, adjective [Latin intestabilis; in and testabilis; testis, a witness; testor, to testify.]

Not capable of making a will; legally unqualified or disqualified to make a testament; as, a person unqualified for want of discretion, or disqualified by loss of reason, is intestable

Intestacy

INTEST'ACY, noun [from intestate.] The state of dying without making a will or disposing of one's effects.

Intestate

INTEST'ATE, adjective [Latin intestatus; in and testatus, testor, to make a will.]

1. Dying without having made a will. When a man dies intestate his estate is committed for settlement to administrators.

2. Not devised; not disposed of by will; as an intestate estate.

INTEST'ATE, noun A person who dies without making a will.

Intestinal

INTEST'INAL, adjective [from intestine.] Pertaining to the intestines of an animal body; as the intestinal tube or canal.

Intestine

INTEST'INE, adjective [Latin intestinus, from intus, within.]

1. Internal; inward; opposed to external; applied to the human or other animal body; as an intestine disease.

2. Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic, not foreign; as intestine feuds; intestine war; intestine enemies. It is to be remarked that this word is usually or always applied to evils. We never say, intestine happiness or prosperity; intestine trade, manufactures or bills; but intestine broils, trouble, disorders, calamities, war, etc. We say, internal peace, welfare, prosperity, or internal broils, war, trade, etc. This restricted use of intestine seems to be entirely arbitrary.

INTEST'INE, noun Usually in the plural, intestines. The bowels; the canal or tube that extends, with convolutions, from the right orifice of the stomach to the anus.

Inthirst

INTHIRST, verb transitive inthurst'. [in and thirst.] To make thirsty. [Not used.]

Inthrall

INTHRALL', verb transitive [in and thrall.] To enslave; to reduce to bondage or servitude; to shackle. The Greeks have been inthralled by the Turks.

She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind.

Inthralled

INTHRALL'ED, participle passive Enslaved; reduced to servitude.

Inthralling

INTHRALL'ING, participle present tense Enslaving.

Inthrallment

INTHRALL'MENT, noun Servitude; slavery; bondage.

Inthrone

INTHRO'NE, verb transitive [in and throne.] To seat on a throne; to raise to royalty or supreme dominion. [See Enthrone, which is the more common orthography.]

Inthronization

INTHRONIZA'TION, noun The act of enthroning. [Not in use.]

Inthronize

INTHRO'NIZE, verb transitive To enthrone. [Not in use.]

Intimacy

IN'TIMACY, noun [from intimate.] Close familiarity or fellowship; nearness in friendship.

Intimate

IN'TIMATE, adjective [Latin intimus, superlative of intus, or interus, within.]

1. Inmost; inward; internal; as intimate impulse.

2. Near; close.

He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission.

3. Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; as an intimate friend; intimate acquaintance.

IN'TIMATE, noun A familiar friend or associate; one to whom the thoughts of another are entrusted without reserve.

IN'TIMATE, verb intransitive To share together. [Not in use.]

IN'TIMATE, verb transitive [Low Latin intimo, to intimate to register, to love entirely, to make one intimate to enter, from intimus.]

To hint; to suggest obscurely, indirectly or not very plainly; to give slight notice of. He intimated his intention of resigning his office.

'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter,

And intimates eternity to man.

Intimated

IN'TIMATED, participle passive Hinted; slightly mentioned or signified.

Intimately

IN'TIMATELY, adverb Closely; with close intermixture and union of parts; as two fluids intimately mixed.

1. Closely; with nearness of friendship or alliance; as two friends intimately united; two families intimately connected.

2. Familiarly; particularly; as, to be intimately acquainted with facts or with a subject.

Intimating

IN'TIMATING, participle present tense Hinting; suggesting.

Intimation

INTIMA'TION, noun Hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a declaration or remark communicating imperfect information. Our friend left us without giving any previous intimation of his design.

Intime

IN'TIME, adjective [Latin intimus.] Inward; internal. [Not used.]

Intimidate

INTIM'IDATE, verb transitive [Latin timidus, fearful; timeo, to fear.]

To make fearful; to inspire with fear; to dishearten; to abash.

Now guilt once harbor'd in the conscious breast,

Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Intimidated

INTIM'IDATED, participle passive Made fearful; abashed.

Intimidating

INTIM'IDATING, participle present tense Making fearful; abashing.

Intimidation

INTIMIDA'TION, noun The act of making fearful; the state of being abashed.

Intinctivity

INTINCTIV'ITY, noun [Latin in and tinctus, dipped, stained.]

The want of the quality of coloring or tinging other bodies. Fuller's earth is distinguished from colorific earths by its intinctivity

Intire

INTIRE, INTIRELY, . [See Entire and its derivatives.]

Intirely

INTIRE, INTIRELY . [See Entire and its derivatives.]

Intitle

INTITLE. [See Entitle.]

Into

IN'TO, preposition [in and to.] Noting entrance or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts. It follows verbs expressing motion. Come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another. Water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

1. Noting penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to it. Look into a letter or book; look into an apartment.

2. Noting insertion. Infuse more spirit or animation into the composition.

3. Noting mixture. Put other ingredients into the compound.

4. Noting inclusion. Put these ideas into other words.

5. Noting the passing of a thing from one form or state to another. Compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor. Men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance. We reduce many distinct substances into one mass. We are led by evidence into belief of truth. Men are often enticed into the commission of crimes. Children are sometimes frightened into fits, and we are all liable to be seduced into error and folly.

Intolerable

INTOL'ERABLE, adjective [Latin intolerabilis; in and tolerabilis, tolero, to bear.]

1. Not to be borne; that cannot be endured; as intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.

2. Insufferable; as intolerable laziness.

Intolerableness

INTOL'ERABLENESS, noun The quality of being not tolerable or sufferable.

Intolerably

INTOL'ERABLY, adverb To a degree beyond endurance; as intolerably cold; intolerably abusive.

Intolerance

INTOL'ERANCE, noun [from intolerant.] Want of toleration; the not enduring at all or not suffering to exist without persecution; as the intolerance of a prince or a church towards a religious sect.

Intolerant

INTOL'ERANT, adjective [Latin in and tolero, to endure.]

1. Not enduring; not able to endure.

The powers of the human body being limited and intolerant of excesses.

2. Not enduring difference of opinion or worship; refusing to tolerate others in the enjoyment of their opinions, rights and worship.

INTOL'ERANT, noun One who does not favor toleration.

Intolerated

INTOL'ERATED, adjective Not endured; not tolerated.

Intoleration

INTOLERA'TION, noun Intolerance; refusal to tolerate others in their opinions or worship.

Intomb

INTOMB, verb transitive intoom'. [in and tomb.] To deposit in a tomb; to bury.

Intombed

INTOMBED, participle passive intoom'ed. Deposited in a tomb; buried.

Intombing

INTOMBING, participle present tense intoom'ing. Depositing in a tomb; interring.

Intonate

IN'TONATE, verb intransitive [Latin intono, intonatus; in and tono, to sound or thunder.]

1. To sound; to sound the notes of the musical scale.

2. To thunder.

Intonation

INTONA'TION, noun In music, the action of sounding the notes of the scale with the voice, or any other given order of musical tones.

1. The manner of sounding or tuning the notes of a musical scale.

2. In speaking, the modulation of the voice in expression.

Intone

INTO'NE, verb intransitive [Latin intono, supra.] To utter a sound, or a deep protracted sound.

Ass intones to ass.

Intorsion

INTOR'SION, noun [Latin intorqueo, intorsum, to twist.]

A winding, bending or twisting. In botany, the bending or twining of any part of a plant towards one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.

Intort

INTORT', verb transitive [Latin intortus, from intorqueo, to twist.]

To twist; to wreath; to wind; to wring.

Intorted

INTORT'ED, participle passive Twisted; made winding.

Intorting

INTORT'ING, participle present tense Winding; twisting.

Intoxicate

INTOX'ICATE, verb transitive [in and Latin toxicum, which, Pliny informs us, is from taxa, a species of tree.]

1. To inebriate; to make drunk; as with spirituous liquor.

As with new wine intoxicated both,

They swim in mirth--

2. To excite the spirits to a kind of delirium; to elate to enthusiasm, frenzy or madness. Success may sometimes intoxicate a man of sobriety. An enthusiast may be intoxicated and zeal.

INTOX'ICATE, adjective Inebriated.

Intoxicated

INTOX'ICATED, participle passive Inebriated; made drunk; excited to frenzy.

Intoxicating

INTOX'ICATING, participle present tense Inebriating; elating to excess or frenzy.

1. Having qualities that produce inebriation; as intoxicating liquors.

Intoxication

INTOXICA'TION, noun Inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of making drunk.

Intractability

INTRACTABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being ungovernable; obstinacy; perverseness.

1. Indocility.

Intractable

INTRACT'ABLE, adjective [Latin intractabilis; in and tractabilis, tracto, to handle, manage, govern.]

1. Not to be governed or managed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as an intractable temper.

2. Not to be taught; indocile.

Intractableness

INTRACT'ABLENESS

INTRACT'ABLY, adverb In a perverse, stubborn manner.

Intractably

INTRACT'ABLY, adv. In a perverse, stubborn manner.

Intrafoliaceous

INTRAFOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin intra and folium, a leaf.]

In botany, growing on the inside of a leaf; as intrafoliaceous stipules.

Intrance

INTRANCE. [See Entrance.]

Intranquillity

INTRANQUIL'LITY, noun [in and tranquillity.]

Unquietness; inquietude; want of rest.

Intransient

INTRAN'SIENT, adjective Not transient; not passing suddenly away.

Intransitive

INTRANS'ITIVE, adjective [Latin intransitivus; in and transeo, to pass over.]

In grammar, an intransitive verb is one which expresses an action or state that is limited to the agent, or in other words, an action that does not pass over to, or operate upon an object; as, I walk; I run; I sleep.

Intransitively

INTRANS'ITIVELY, adverb Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

Intransmissible

INTRANSMIS'SIBLE, adjective That cannot be transmitted.

Intransmutability

INTRANSMUTABIL'ITY, noun The quality of not being transmutable.

Intransmutable

INTRANSMU'TABLE, adjective [in and transmutable.]

That cannot be transmuted or changed into another substance.

Intrant

IN'TRANT, adjective [Latin intrans.] Entering; penetrating.

Intreasure

INTREASURE, verb transitive intrezh'ur. [in and treasure.]

To lay up as in a treasury. [Little used.]

Intreatful

INTRE'ATFUL, adjective Full of entreaty.

Intrench

INTRENCH', verb transitive

1. To dig or cut a trench around a place, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet. The army intrenched their camp, or they were intrenched.

2. To furrow; to make hollows in.

His face

Deep scars of thunder had intrenched.

To intrench on, literally, to cut into; hence, to invade; to encroach; to enter on and take possession of that which belongs to another. In the contest for power, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogatives of the crown.

Intrenchant

INTRENCH'ANT, adjective Not to be divided or wounded; indivisible. [Not used.]

Intrenched

INTRENCH'ED, participle passive Fortified with a ditch and parapet.

Intrenching

INTRENCH'ING, participle present tense Fortifying with a trench and parapet.

Intrenchment

INTRENCH'MENT, noun Properly, a trench or ditch only; but as the earth thrown out of a trench forms a part, and often the most necessary and useful part of a fortification, hence intrenchment is generally understood to signify a ditch and parapet, and sometimes it signifies fascines covered with earth, gabions, bags filled with earth, or other materials collected to cover men from an enemy's fire.

On our side we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect hills.

Intrepid

INTREP'ID, adjective [Latin intrepidus; in and trepidus, trepido, to tremble.] Literally, not trembling or shaking with fear; hence, fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; as an intrepid soldier.

Intrepidity

INTREPID'ITY, noun Fearlessness; fearless bravery in danger; undaunted courage or boldness. The troops engaged with intrepidity

Intrepidly

INTREP'IDLY, adverb Without trembling or shrinking from danger; fearlessly; daringly; resolutely.

Intricable

IN'TRICABLE, adjective Entangling. [Not in use.]

Intricacy

IN'TRICACY, noun [from intricate.] The state of being entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; as the intricacy of a knot, and figuratively, the intricacy of accounts, the intricacy of a cause in controversy, the intricacy of a plot.

Intricate

IN'TRICATE, adjective [Latin intricatus, from intrico, to fold; in and tricor.] Entangled, involved; perplexed; complicated; obscure. We passed through intricate windings. We found the accounts intricate The case on trial is intricate The plot of a tragedy may be too intricate to please.

IN'TRICATE, verb transitive To perplex; to make obscure. [Little used.]

Intricately

IN'TRICATELY, adverb With involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.

Intricateness

IN'TRICATENESS, noun The state of being involved; involution; complication; perplexity.

Intrication

INTRICA'TION, noun Entanglement. [Not used.]

Intrigue

INTRIGUE, noun intree'g. [Low Latin intrico, intricor, to enwrap; tricor, to trifle, to show tricks; Gr. hair or a lock of hair, as we should say, a plexus.]

1. A plot or scheme of a complicated nature, intended to effect some purpose by secret artifices. An intrigue may be formed and prosecuted by an individual, and we often hear of the intrigues of a minister or a courtier, but often several projectors are concerned in an intrigue The word is usually applied to affairs of love or of government.

2. The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions and events, intended to awaken interest in an audience or reader, and make them wait with eager curiosity for the solution or development.

3. Intricacy; complication. [Not in use.]

INTRIGUE, verb intransitive intree'g. To form a plot or scheme, usually complicated, and intended to effect some purpose by secret artifices. The courtier intrigues with the minister, and the lover with his mistress.

INTRIGUE, verb transitive intree'g.

To perplex or render intricate. [Not used.]

Intriguer

INTRIGUER, noun intree'ger. One who intrigues; one who forms plots, or pursues an object by secret artifices.

Intriguing

INTRIGUING, participle present tense intree'ging. Forming secret plots or schemes.

1. Addicted to intrigue; given to secret machinations.

Intriguingly

INTRIGUINGLY, adjective intree'gingly. With intrigue; with artifice or secret machinations.

Intrinsecate

INTRIN'SECATE, adjective Entangled; perplexed. [Not in use.]

Intrinsic

INTRIN'SIC

INTRIN'SICAL, adjective [Latin intrinsecus; intra and secus.]

1. Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not apparent or accidental; as the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person.

2. Intimate; closely familiar.

Intrinsical

INTRIN'SICAL, a. [L. intrinsecus; intra and secus.] 1. Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not apparent or accidental; as the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person.2. Intimate; closely familiar.

Intrinsically

INTRIN'SICALLY, adverb Internally; in its nature; really; truly.

A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil.

Introduce

INTRODU'CE, verb transitive [Latin introduco; intro, within, and duco, to lead.]

1. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher into a place; as, to introduce a person into a drawing room.

2. To conduct and make known; to bring to be acquainted; as, to introduce a stranger to a person; to introduce a foreign minister to a prince.

3. To bring something new into notice or practice; as, to introduce a new fashion, or a new remedy for a disease; to introduce an improved mode of tillage.

4. To bring in; to import; as, to introduce foreign goods.

5. To produce; to cause to exist; as, to introduce habits into children.

6. To begin; to open to notice, He introduced the subject with a long preface.

7. To bring before the public by writing or discourse; as, to introduce one's self to notice or to the public.

Introduced

INTRODU'CED, participle passive Led or conducted in; brought in; made acquainted; imported.

Introducer

INTRODU'CER, noun One who introduces; one who conducts another to a place or person; one who makes strangers known to each other; one who brings any thing into notice or practice.

Introducing

INTRODU'CING, participle present tense Conducting or bringing in; making known, as one stranger to another; bringing any thing into notice or practice.

Introduction

INTRODUC'TION, noun [Latin introductio.]

1. The action of conducting or ushering into a place; used of persons. We speak of the introduction of one stranger to another; the introduction of a foreign minister to a prince or court, and the introduction of company to a levee.

2. The act of bringing into a country; as the introduction of gold or bullion, or of merchandise.

3. The act of bringing something into notice, practice or use; as the introduction of new modes of dress or of tillage.

4. The part of a book which precedes the main work; a preface or preliminary discourse.

5. The first part of an oration or discourse, in which the speaker gives some general account of his design and subject, and prepares the minds of his audience for a favorable reception of his remarks or arguments.

Introductive

INTRODUC'TIVE, adjective Serving to introduce; serving as the means to bring forward something.

Introductor

INTRODUC'TOR, noun An introducer. [Not used.]

Introductory

INTRODUC'TORY, adjective Serving to introduce something else; previous; prefatory; preliminary; as introductory remarks; an introductory discourse.

Introgression

INTROGRES'SION, noun [Latin introgressio.] Entrance. [Not used.]

Intromission

INTROMIS'SION, noun [Latin intromissus, intromitto; intro and mitto, to send.]

1. The action of sending in.

2. In Scot's law, an intermeddling with the effects of another.

Intromit

INTROMIT', verb transitive [Latin intromitto, supra.]

To send in; to let in; to admit.

1. To allow to enter; to be the medium by which a thing enters. Glass in the window intromits light without cold into a room.

INTROMIT', verb intransitive To intermeddle with the effects of another.

Introreception

INTRORECEP'TION, noun The act of admitting into or within.

Introspect

INTROSPECT', verb transitive [Latin introspicio; intro and specio, to look.]

To look into or within; to view the inside.

Introspection

INTROSPEC'TION, noun A view of the inside or interior.

I was forced to make an introspection into my own mind.

Introsusception

INTROSUSCEP'TION

INTROVE'NIENT, adjective [Latin intro and veniens, venio, to come.]

Coming in or between; entering. [Little used.]

Introvenient

INTROVE'NIENT, a. [L. intro and veniens, venio, to come.]

Coming in or between; entering. [Little used.]

Introversion

INTROVER'SION, noun The act of turning inwards.

Introvert

INTROVERT', verb transitive [Latin intro and verto.] To turn inwards.

Intrude

INTRU'DE, verb intransitive [Latin intrudo; in and trudo, to thrust. See Thrust.]

1. To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation or welcome; to enter, as into company, against the will of the company or the host; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours. Never intrude where your company is not desired.

2. To encroach; to enter or force one's self in without permission; as, to intrude on the lands of another.

3. To enter uncalled or uninvited, or without just right. Colossians 2:1.

INTRU'DE, verb transitive To thrust one's self in, or to enter into some place without right or welcome.

1. To force or cast in.

Intruded

INTRU'DED, participle passive Thrust in.

Intruder

INTRU'DER, noun One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters where he has no right or is not welcome.

They were but intruders on the possession, during the minority of the heir.

They were all strangers and intruders.

Intruding

INTRUDING, participle present tense Entering without invitation, right or welcome.

Intrusion

INTRU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin intrusio, from intrudo.]

1. The action of thrusting in, or of entering into a place or state without invitation, right or welcome. The company may be disturbed by the intrusion of an unwelcome guest.

--Many excellent strains which have been jostled off by the intrusions of poetical fictions.

Why this intrusion?

Were not my orders that I should be private?

2. Encroachment; entrance without right on the property or possessions of another.

3. Voluntary entrance on an undertaking unsuitable for the person.

Intrusive

INTRU'SIVE, adjective Thrusting in or entering without right or welcome; apt to intrude.

Intrust

INTRUST', verb transitive [in and trust.] To deliver in trust; to confide to the care of; to commit to another with confidence in his fidelity; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or goods, or to intrust money or goods to a servant. We intrust an agent or factor with commercial business, or we intrust commercial concerns to an agent.

We intrust our friends with secrets, or intrust secrets to them.

Intrusted

INTRUST'ED, participle passive Delivered in trust; committed to the hands or care of another, in confidence that he will be faithful in discharging his duty.

Intrusting

INTRUST'ING, participle present tense Delivering in trust; confiding to the care of.

Intuition

INTUI'TION, noun [Latin intuitus, intueor; in and tueor.]

A looking on; a sight or view; but restricted to mental view or perception. Particularly and appropriately, the act by which the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, or the truth of things, immediately, or the moment they are presented, without the intervention of other ideas, or without reasoning and deduction.

We know by intuition that a part is less than the whole.

Intuitive

INTU'ITIVE, adjective

1. Perceived by the mind immediately, without the intervention of argument or testimony; exhibiting truth to the mind on bare inspection; as intuitive evidence.

2. Received or obtained by intuition or simple inspection; as intuitive judgment or knowledge.

3. Seeing clearly; as an intuitive view; intuitive vision.

4. Having the power of discovering truth without reasoning; as the intuitive powers of celestial beings.

Intuitvely

INTU'ITVELY, adverb By immediate perception; without reasoning; as, to perceive truth intuitively.

Intumesce

INTUMESCE, verb intransitive intumes'. [Latin intumesco; in and tumeo, to swell.]

To swell; to enlarge or expand with heat.

In a higher heat it intumesces and melts into a yellowish black mass.

Intumescence

INTUMES'CENCE, noun [supra.] The action of swelling.

1. A swell; a swelling with bubbles; a rising and enlarging; a tumid state.

Inturgescence

INTURGES'CENCE, noun [Latin in and turgesco, to swell.]

A swelling; the action of swelling or state of being swelled.

Intuse

INTU'SE, noun [Latin intusus.] A bruise. [Not in use.]

Intussusception

INTUSSUSCEPTION, noun The falling of one part of an intestine into another, or the passing of one part within another, causing a duplicature of the intestine.

Intwine

INTWI'NE, verb transitive [in and twine.] To twine or twist together; to wreath; as a wreath of flowers intwined.

Intwined

INTWI'NED, participle passive Twisted together.

Intwining

INTWI'NING, participle present tense Wreathing together.

Intwist

INTWIST', verb transitive [in and twist.] To twist together; to interweave.

Intwisted

INTWIST'ED, participle passive Twisted together.

Intwisting

INTWIST'ING, participle present tense Twisting together.

Inulin

IN'ULIN, noun A peculiar vegetable principle extracted from the Inula helenium, or elecampane.

Inumbrate

INUM'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin inumbro.] To shade.

Inunction

INUNC'TION, noun [Latin inunctus, inungo; in and ungo, to anoint.]

The action of anointing; unction.

Inunctuosity

INUNCTUOS'ITY, noun [Latin in and unctus, or Eng. unctuous.]

The want of unctuosity; destitution of greasiness or oiliness which is perceptible to the touch; as the inunctuosity of porcelain clay.

Inundant

INUN'DANT, adjective [Latin inundans, infra.] Overflowing.

Inundate

INUN'DATE, verb transitive [Latin inundo, inundatus; in and unda, a wave, or its root.]

1. To overflow; to deluge; to spread over with a fluid. The low lands along the Mississippi are inundated almost every spring.

2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was once inundated with bills of credit. The presses inundate the country with papers.

Inundated

INUN'DATED, participle passive Overflowed; spread over with a fluid; copiously supplied.

Inundating

INUN'DATING, participle present tense Overflowing; deluging; spreading over.

Inundation

INUNDA'TION, noun [Latin inundatio.] An overflow of water or other fluid; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over low grounds. Holland has frequently suffered immensely by inundations of the sea. The Delta in Egypt is annually enriched by the inundation of the Nile.

1. An overspreading of any kind; an overflowing or superfluous abundance.

Inunderstanding

INUNDERSTAND'ING, adjective Void of understanding. [A bad word and not used.]

Inurbanity

INURBAN'ITY, noun [in and urbanity.] Incivility; rude; unpolished manners or deportment; want of courteousness.

Inure

INU'RE, verb transitive [in and ure. Ure signifies use, practice, in old English.]

1. To habituate; to accustom; to apply or expose in use or practice till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience, or makes little impression. Thus a man inures his body to labor and toil, till he sustains that which would destroy a body unaccustomed to it. So we inure ourselves to cold or heat. Warriors are inured to blood, and seamen are inured to hardships and deprivations.

INU'RE, verb intransitive To pass in use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as a gift of lands inures to the heirs of the grantee, or it inures to their benefit.

Inured

INU'RED, participle passive Accustomed; hardened by use.

Inurement

INU'REMENT, noun Use; practice; habit; custom; frequency.

Inuring

INU'RING, participle present tense Habituating; accustoming.

1. Passing in use to the benefit of.

Inurn

INURN', verb transitive [in and urn.] To bury; to inter; to intomb.

--The sepulcher

Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned.

1. To put in an urn.

Inurned

INURN'ED, participle passive Deposited in a tomb.

Inurning

INURN'ING, participle present tense Interring; burying.

Inusitation

INUSITA'TION, noun Want of use; disuse. [Little used.]

Inustion

INUS'TION, noun [Latin inustio, inuro; in and uro, to burn.]

The action of burning.

1. A branding; the action of marking by burning.

Inutile

INU'TILE, adjective [Latin inutilis.] Unprofitable; useless. [Not in use.]

Inutility

INUTIL'ITY, noun [Latin inutilitas; in and utilitas. See Utility.]

Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.

Inutterable

INUT'TERABLE, adjective That cannot be uttered.

Invade

INVA'DE, verb transitive [Latin invado; in and vado, to go.]

1. To enter a country, as an army with hostile intentions; to enter as an enemy, with a view to conquest or plunder; to attack. The French armies invaded Holland in 1795. They invaded Russia and perished.

2. To attack; to assail; to assault.

There shall be seditions among men and invading one another. 2 Esdras.

3. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate. The king invaded the rights and privileges of the people, and the people invaded the prerogatives of the king.

4. To go into; a Latinism. [Not used.]

5. To fall on; to attack; to seize; as a disease.

Invaded

INVA'DED, participle passive Entered by an army with a hostile design; attacked; assaulted; infringed; violated.

Invader

INVA'DER, noun One who enters the territory of another with a view to war, conquest or plunder.

1. An assailant.

2. An encroacher; an intruder; one who infringes the rights of another.

Invading

INVA'DING, participle present tense Entering on the possessions of another with a view to war, conquest or plunder; assaulting; infringing; attacking.

Invalescence

INVALES'CENCE, noun [Latin invalesco.] Strength; health.

Invaletudinary

INVALETU'DINARY, adjective Wanting health.

Invalid

INVAL'ID, adjective [Latin invalidus; in and validus, strong, from valeo, to be strong, to avail.]

1. Weak, of no force, weight or cogency.

2. In law, having no force, effect or efficacy; void; null; as an invalid contract or agreement.

IN'VALID, noun [Latin invalidus, supra.]

1. A person who is weak and infirm; a person sickly or indisposed.

2. A person who is infirm, wounded, maimed, or otherwise disabled for active service; a soldier or seaman worn out in service. The hospitals for invalids at Chelsea and Greenwich, in England, are institutions honorable to the English nation.

Invalidate

INVAL'IDATE, verb transitive [from invalid.]

1. To weaken or lessen the force of; more generally, to destroy the strength or validity of; to render of no force or effect; as, to invalidate an agreement or a contract.

2. To overthrow; to prove to be of no force; as, to invalidate an argument.

Invalidated

INVAL'IDATED, participle passive Rendered invalid or of no force.

Invalidating

INVAL'IDATING, participle present tense Destroying the force and effect of.

Invalidity

INVALID'ITY, noun Weakness; want of cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; as the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.

Invalidness

INVAL'IDNESS, noun Invalidity; as the invalidness of reasoning.