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Invaluable

INVAL'UABLE, adjective [in and valuable.] Precious above estimation; so valuable that its worth cannot be estimated; inestimable. The privileges of christians are invaluable

Invaluably

INVAL'UABLY, adverb Inestimably.

Invariable

INVA'RIABLE, adjective Constant in the same state; immutable; unalterable; unchangeable; that does not vary; always uniform. The character and the laws of the Supreme Being must necessarily be invariable

Invariableness

INVA'RIABLENESS, noun Constancy of state, condition or quality; immutability; unchangeableness.

Invariably

INVA'RIABLY, adverb Constantly; uniformly; without alteration or change. We are bound to pursue invariably the path of duty.

Invaried

INVA'RIED, adjective Unvaried; not changing or altering.

Invasion

INVA'SION, noun s as z. [Latin invasio, from invado. See Invade.]

1. A hostile entrance into the possessions of another; particularly, the entrance of a hostile army into a country for the purpose of conquest or plunder, or the attack of a military force. The north of England and south of Scotland were for centuries subject to invasion each from the other. The invasion of England by William the Norman, was in 1066.

2. An attack on the rights of another; infringement or violation.

3. Attack of a disease; as the invasion of the plague, in Egypt.

Invasive

INVA'SIVE, adjective [from invade.] Entering on another's possessions with hostile designs; aggressive.

Invection

INVEC'TION, noun Invective, which see. [Invection is little used.]

Invective

INVEC'TIVE, noun [Latin inveho. See Inveigh.] A railing speech or expression; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation. It differs from reproof, as the latter may come from a friend and be intended to the good of the person reproved; but invective proceeds from an enemy, and is intended to give pain or to injure.

INVEC'TIVE, adjective Satirical; abusive; railing.

Invectively

INVEC'TIVELY, adverb Satirically; abusively.

Inveigh

INVEIGH, verb intransitive inva'y. [Latin inveho, to bear, throw or bring on or against; in and veho, to carry.] To exclaim or rail against; to utter censorious and bitter language against any one; to reproach; with against. The author inveighed sharply against the vices of the clergy in his age. Men inveigh against the follies of fashion.

Inveigher

INVEIGHER, noun inva'yer. One who rails; a railer.

Inveighing

INVEIGHING, participle present tense inva'ying. Exclaiming against; railing at; uttering bitter words.

Inveigle

INVE'IGLE, verb transitive To entice; to seduce; to wheedle; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery.

Yet have they many baits and guileful spells

To inveigle and invite th' unwary sense--

Inveigled

INVE'IGLED, participle passive Enticed; wheedled; seduced from duty.

Inveiglement

INVE'IGLEMENT, noun Seduction to evil; enticement.

Inveigler

INVE'IGLER, noun One who entices or draws into any design by arts and flattery.

Inveigling

INVE'IGLING, participle present tense Enticing; wheedling; persuading to any thing bad.

Inveiled

INVEILED, adjective Covered as with a veil.

Invent

INVENT', verb transitive [Latin invenio, inventum; in and venio, to come; literally, to come to, to fall on, to meet, Eng. to find.]

1. To find out something new; to devise something not before known; to contrive and produce something that did not before exist; as, to invent a new instrument of music; to invent a machine for spinning; to invent gunpowder. [See Invention.]

2. To forge; to fabricate; to contrive falsely; as, to invent falsehoods.

3. To feign; to frame by the imagination; as, to invent the machinery of a poem.

4. To light on; to meet with. [This is the literal sense, but not now used.]

Invented

INVENT'ED, participle passive Found out; devised; contrived; forged; fabricated.

Inventer

INVENT'ER, noun [See Inventor.]

Inventing

INVENT'ING, participle present tense Finding out what was before unknown; devising or contriving something new; fabricating.

Invention

INVEN'TION, noun [Latin inventio.]

1. The action or operation of finding out something new; the contrivance of that which did not before exist; as the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing; the invention of the orrery. invention differs from discovery. invention is applied to the contrivance and production of something that did not before exist. Discovery brings to light that which existed before, but which was not know. We are indebted to invention for the thermometer and barometer. We are indebted to discovery for the knowledge of the isles in the Pacific ocean, and for the knowledge of galvanism, and many species of earth not formerly known. This distinction is important, though not always observed.

2. That which is invented. The cotton gin is the invention of Whitney; the steam boat is the invention of Fulton. The Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders are said to be inventions of the Greeks; the Tuscan and Composite are inventions of the Latins.

3. Forgery; fiction. Fables are the inventions of ingenious men.

4. In painting, the finding or choice of the objects which are to enter into the composition of the piece.

5. In poetry, it is applied to whatever the poet adds to the history of the subject.

6. In rhetoric, the finding and selecting of arguments to prove and illustrate the point in view.

7. The power of inventing; that skill or ingenuity which is or may be employed in contriving any thing new. Thus we say, a man of invention

8. Discovery; the finding of things hidden or before unknown. [Less proper.]

Inventive

INVENT'IVE, adjective Able to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as an inventive head or genius.

Inventor

INVENT'OR, noun One who finds out something new; one who contrives and produces any thing not before existing; a contriver. The inventors of many of the most useful arts are not known.

Inventorially

INVENTO'RIALLY, adverb In the manner of an inventory.

Inventoried

IN'VENTORIED, participle passive Inserted or registered in an inventory.

Inventory

IN'VENTORY, noun

1. An account, catalogue or schedule of all the goods and chattels of a deceased person. In some of the United States, the inventory must include an account of the real as well as the personal estate of the deceased.

2. A catalogue of movables.

3. A catalogue of account of particular things. [An indefinite use of the word.]

IN'VENTORY, verb transitive To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue or schedule of; as, to inventory the goods and estate of the deceased.

1. To insert or register in an account of goods.

Inventress

INVENT'RESS, noun [from invent.] A female that invents.

Inverse

INVERSE, adjective invers'. [Latin inversus. See Invert.]

Inverted; reciprocal. inverse proportion or ratio, is when the effect or result of any operation is less in proportion as the cause is greater, or is greater in proportion as the cause is less. Thus the time in which a quantity of work may be performed, will be less in proportion as the number of workmen is greater, and greater in proportion as the number of workmen is less. If ten men can perform a certain quantity of work in six days, then twenty men will perform the same work in three days. inverse proportion is opposed to direct.

Inversely

INVERSELY, adverb invers'ly. In an inverted order or manner; when more produces less, and less produces more; or when one thing is greater or less, in proportion as another is less or greater.

Inversion

INVER'SION, noun [Latin inversio. See Invert.]

1. Change of order, so that the last becomes first and the first last; a turning or change of the natural order of things.

It is just the inversion of an act of parliament; your Lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the lords and commons.

2. Change of places, so that each takes the place of the other.

3. A turning backwards; a contrary rule of operation. Problems in geometry and arithmetic are often proved by inversion as division by multiplication, and multiplication by division.

4. In grammar, a change of the natural order of words; as, 'of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable.' instead of 'impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices.'

5. In music, the change of position either of a subject or of a chord.

Invert

INVERT', verb transitive [Latin inverto; in and verto, to turn.]

1. To turn into a contrary direction; to turn upside down; as, to invert a cone; to invert a hollow vessel.

2. To place in a contrary order or method; as, to invert the rules of justice; to invert the order of words.

And winter storms invert the year.

3. In music, to change the order of the notes which form a chord, or the parts which compose harmony.

4. To divert; to turn into another channel; to embezzle. [Not in use.]

Invertebral

INVERT'EBRAL, adjective Destitute of vertebral column, as animals.

Invertebrated

INVERT'EBRATED, adjective Destitute of a back bone or vertebral chain. [See Vertebrated.]

Inverted

INVERT'ED, participle passive Turned to a contrary direction; turned upside down; changed in order.

Invertedly

INVERT'EDLY, adverb In a contrary or reversed order.

Invertent

INVERT'ENT, noun A medicine intended to invert the natural order of the successive irritative motions in the system.

Inverting

INVERT'ING, participle present tense Turning in a contrary direction; changing the order.

Invest

INVEST', verb transitive [Latin investio; in and vestio, to clothe. See Vest.]

1. To clothe; to dress; to put garments on; to array; usually and most correctly followed by with, before the thing put on; as, to invest one with a mantle or robe. In this sense, it is used chiefly in poetry and elevated prose, not in colloquial discourse.

2. To clothe with office or authority; to place in possession of an office, rank or dignity; as, to invest a person with a civil office, or with an ecclesiastical dignity.

3. To adorn; to grace; as, to invest with honor.

4. To clothe; to surround; as, to be invested with light, splendor or glory.

5. To confer; to give. [Little used.]

6. To inclose; to surround; to block up, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

7. To clothe money in something permanent or less fleeting; as, to invest money in funded or bank stock; to invest it in lands or goods. In this application, it is always followed by in.

Invested

INVEST'ED, participle passive Clothed; dressed; adorned; inclosed.

Investient

INVEST'IENT, adjective Covering; clothing.

Investigable

INVEST'IGABLE, adjective [from investigate.] That may be investigated or searched out; discoverable by rational search or disquisition. The causes or reasons of things are sometimes investigable

Investigate

INVEST'IGATE, verb transitive [Latin investigo; in and vestigo, to follow a track, to search; vestigium, a track or footstep.]

To search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful disquisition; as, to investigate the powers and forces of nature; to investigate the causes of natural phenomena; to investigate the principles of moral duty; to investigate the conduct of an agent or the motives of a prince.

Investigated

INVEST'IGATED, participle passive Searched into; examined with care.

Investigating

INVEST'IGATING, participle present tense Searching into; inquiring into with care.

Investigation

INVESTIGA'TION, noun [Latin investigatio.] The action or process of searching minutely for truth, facts or principles; a careful inquiry to find out what is unknown, either in the physical or moral world, and either by observation and experiment, or by argument and discussion. Thus we speak of the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist and the divine.

Investigative

INVEST'IGATIVE, adjective Curious and deliberate in researches.

Investigator

INVEST'IGATOR, noun One who searches diligently into a subject.

Investiture

INVEST'ITURE, noun The action of giving possession, or livery of seizin.

The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony of corporal investiture or open delivery of possession.

It was customary for princes to make investiture of ecclesiastical benefices.

1. The right of giving possession of any manor, office or benefice.

He had refused to yield to the pope the investiture of bishops.

Investive

INVEST'IVE, adjective Clothing; encircling.

Investment

INVEST'MENT, noun The action of investing.

1. Clothes; dress; garment; habit. [We now use vestment.]

2. The act of surrounding, blocking up or besieging by an armed force.

The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort, within six days after its investment

3. The laying out of money in the purchase of some species

of property; literally, the clothing of money with something.

Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible.

Inveteracy

INVET'ERACY, noun [Latin inveteratio. See Inveterate.]

Long continuance, or the firmness or deep rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as the inveteracy of custom and habit; usually or always applied in a bad sense; as the inveteracy of prejudice, of error, or of any evil habit.

Inveterate

INVET'ERATE, adjective [Latin inveteratus, invetero; in and vetero, from vetus, old.]

1. Old; long established.

It is an inveterate and received opinion--

2. Deep rooted; firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; used of evils; as an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse; an inveterate course of sin.

3. Having fixed habits by long continuance; used of persons; as an inveterate sinner.

4. Violent; deep rooted; obstinate; as inveterate enmity or malice.

INVET'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin invetero, to grow old.]

To fix and settle by long continuance. [Obsolete or little used.]

Inveterately

INVET'ERATELY, adverb With obstinacy; violently.

Inveterateness

INVET'ERATENESS, noun Obstinacy confirmed by time; inveteracy; as the inveterateness of a mischief.

Inveteration

INVETERA'TION, noun The act of hardening or confirming by long continuance.

Invidious

INVID'IOUS, adjective [Latin invidiosus, from invideo, to envy; in and video, to see. Invideo signified properly, to look against.]

1. Envious; malignant.

2. Likely to incur ill will or hatred, or to provoke envy; hateful. [This is the usual sense.]

Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes.

Invidiously

INVID'IOUSLY, adverb Enviously; malignantly.

1. In a manner likely to provoke hatred.

Invidiousness

INVID'IOUSNESS, noun The quality of provoking envy or hatred.

Invigilance

INVIG'ILANCE, noun Want of vigilance; neglect of watching.

Invigorate

INVIG'ORATE, verb transitive To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. Exercise invigorates the body; cheerfulness invigorates the mind.

Christian graces and virtues they cannot be, unless fed, invigorated and animated by universal charity.

Invigorated

INVIG'ORATED, participle passive Strengthened; animated.

Invigorating

INVIG'ORATING, participle present tense Giving fresh vigor to; strengthening.

Invigoration

INVIGORA'TION, noun The action of invigorating, or state of being invigorated.

Invillaged

INVIL'LAGED, adjective Turned into a village.

Invincibility

INVINCIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being unconquerable; insuperableness.

Invincible

INVIN'CIBLE, adjective [Latin in and vinco, to conquer.]

1. Not to be conquered or subdued; that cannot be overcome; unconquerable; as an invincible army.

2. Not to be overcome; insuperable; as, an invincible obstacle, error, habit or objection.

Invincibleness

INVIN'CIBLENESS

INVIN'CIBLY, adverb Unconquerably; insuperably.

Invincibly

INVIN'CIBLY, adv. Unconquerably; insuperably.

Inviolability

INVIOLABIL'ITY, noun [from inviolable.] The quality or state of being inviolable; as the inviolability of crowned heads.

1. The quality of not being subject to be broken.

Inviolable

INVI'OLABLE, adjective [Latin inviolabilis; in and violabilis, violo, to violate.]

1. Not to be profaned; that ought not to be injured, polluted or treated with irreverence; as, a sacred place and sacred things should be considered inviolable

2. Not to be broken; as an inviolable league, covenant, agreement, contract, vow or promise.

3. Not to be injured or tarnished; as inviolable chastity or honor.

4. Not susceptible of hurt or wound; as inviolable saints.

Inviolableness

INVI'OLABLENESS

INVI'OLABLY, adverb Without profanation; without breach or failure; as a sanctuary inviolably sacred; to keep a promise inviolably.

Inviolably

INVI'OLABLY, adv. Without profanation; without breach or failure; as a sanctuary inviolably sacred; to keep a promise inviolably.

Inviolate

INVI'OLATE, adjective [Latin inviolatus.] Unhurt; uninjured; unprofaned; unpolluted; unbroken.

But let inviolate truth be always dear

To thee.

Inviolated

INVI'OLATED, adjective Unprofaned; unbroken; unviolated.

Invious

IN'VIOUS, adjective [Latin invius; in and via, way.] Impassable; untrodden.

Inviousness

IN'VIOUSNESS, noun State of being impassable.

Inviscate

INVISC'ATE, verb transitive [Latin in and viscus, glue, birdlime.]

1. To lime; to daub with glue.

2. To catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [Little used.]

Inviscerate

INVIS'CERATE, verb transitive To breed; to nourish. [A bad word.]

Invisibility

INVISIBIL'ITY

INVIS'IBLE, adjective s as z. [Latin invisibilis; in and visibilis, viso, to see.] That cannot be seen; imperceptible by the sight. Millions of stars, invisible to the naked eye, may be seen by the telescope.

He endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:1.

Invisible

INVIS'IBLE, a. s as z. [L. invisibilis; in and visibilis, viso, to see.] That cannot be seen; imperceptible by the sight. Millions of stars, invisible to the naked eye, may be seen by the telescope. He endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Heb.11.

Invisibleness

INVIS'IBLENESS, noun The state of being invisible; imperceptibleness to the sight.

Invisibly

INVIS'IBLY, adverb In a manner to escape the sight; imperceptibly to the eye.

Invision

INVIS'ION, noun s as z. [in and vision.] Want of vision, or the power of seeing. [Little used.]

Invitation

INVITA'TION, noun [Latin invitatio. See Invite.] The act of inviting; solicitation; the calling or requesting of a person's company to visit, to dine, or to accompany him to any place.

Invitatory

INVI'TATORY, adjective Using or containing invitations.

INVI'TATORY, noun A part of the service in the catholic church; a psalm or anthem sung in the morning.

--Antiphonary, a service-book, which contained all the invitatories, responsories and collects.

Invite

INVI'TE, verb transitive [Latin invito.]

1. To ask to do some act or to go to some place; to request the company of a person; as, to invite one to dine or sup; to invite friends to a wedding; to invite company to an entertainment; to invite one to an excursion into the country.

2. To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope.

--Shady groves, that easy sleep invite

3. To present should be in a situation not to invite hostilities.

Invited

INVI'TED, participle passive Solicited; requested to come or go in person; allured.

Inviter

INVI'TER, noun One who invites.

Inviting

INVI'TING, participle present tense Soliciting the company of; asking to attend.

1. Alluring; tempting; drawing to; as an inviting amusement or prospect.

Nothing is so easy and inviting as the retort of abuse and sarcasm.

INVI'TING, noun Invitation.

Invitingly

INVI'TINGLY, adverb In such a manner as to invite or allure.

Invitingness

INVI'TINGNESS, noun The quality of being inviting.

Invitrifiable

INVIT'RIFIABLE, adjective [in and vitrifiable, from vitrify.]

That cannot be vitrified or converted into glass.

Invocate

IN'VOCATE, verb transitive [Latin invoco; in and voco, to call.] To invoke; to call on in supplication; to implore; to address in prayer.

If Dagon by thy god,

Go to his temple, invocate his aid--

[Instead of this word, invoke is generally used.

Invocated

IN'VOCATED, participle passive Invoked; called on in prayer.

Invocating

IN'VOCATING, participle present tense Invoking.

Invocation

INVOCA'TION, noun [Latin invocatio.]

1. The act of addressing in prayer.

2. The form or act of calling for the assistance or presence of any being, particularly of some divinity; as the invocation of the muses.

The whole poem is a prayer to Fortune, and the invocation is divided between the two deities.

3. A judicial call, demand or order; as the invocation of papers or evidence into a court.

Invoice

IN'VOICE, noun

1. In commerce, a written account of the particulars of merchandise, shipped or sent to a purchases, consignee, factor, etc. with the value or prices and charges annexed.

2. A written account of ratable estate.

IN'VOICE, verb transitive To make a written account of goods or property with their prices.

Goods, wares and merchandise imported from Norway, and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway--

It is usual to invoice goods in the currency of the country in which the seller resides.

Invoiced

IN'VOICED, participle passive Inserted in a list with the price or value annexed.

Invoicing

IN'VOICING, participle present tense Making an account in writing of goods, with their prices or values annexed; inserting in an invoice.

Invoke

INVO'KE, verb transitive [Latin invoco; in and voco, to call; vox, a word.]

1. To address in prayer; to call on for assistance and protection; as, to invoke the Supreme Being. Poets invoke the muses for assistance.

2. To order; to call judicially; as, to invoke depositions or evidence into a court.

Invoked

INVO'KED, participle passive Addressed in prayer for aid; called.

Invoking

INVO'KING, participle present tense Addressing in prayer for aid; calling.

Involucel

INVOL'UCEL, noun [dim. of involucre.]

A partial involucre; an volucret.

Involucellate

INVOLU'CELLATE, adjective [supra.] Surrounded with involucels.

Involucre

INVOLU'CRE, noun [Latin from involvo.] In botany, a calyx remote from the flower, particularly in the umbel, but applied also to the whorl and other kinds of inflorescence.

Involucred

INVOLU'CRED, adjective Having an involucre, as umbels, whorls, etc.

Involucret

INVOLU'CRET, noun A small or partial involucrum.

Involucrum

INVOLU'CRUM

INVOL'UNTARILY, adverb [from involuntary.]

1. Not by choice; not spontaneously; against one's will.

2. In a matter independent of the will.

Involuntarily

INVOL'UNTARILY, adv. [from involuntary.] 1. Not by choice; not spontaneously; against one's will.2. In a matter independent of the will.

Involuntariness

INVOL'UNTARINESS, noun Want of choice or will.

1. Independence on the will.

Involuntary

INVOL'UNTARY, adjective [Latin in and voluntarius. See Voluntary.]

1. Not having will or choice; unwilling.

2. Independent of will or choice. The motion of the heart and arteries is involuntary but not against the will.

3. Not proceeding from choice; not done willingly; opposed to the will. A slave and a conquered nation yield an involuntary submission to a master.

Involute

IN'VOLUTE, noun [Latin involutus.] A curve traced by the end of a string folded upon a figure, or unwound from it.

IN'VOLUTE

Involuted

IN'VOLUTED, adjective [Latin involutus, involvo. See Involve.]

In botany, rolled spirally inwards. involuted foliation or venation, is when the leaves within the bud have their edges rolled spirally inwards on both sides towards the upper surface.

Involution

INVOLU'TION, noun [Latin involutio. See Involve.]

1. The action of involving or infolding.

2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication.

All things are mixed and causes blended by mutual involutions.

3. In grammar, the insertion of one or more clauses or members of a sentence between the agent or subject and the verb; a third intervening member within a second, etc.; as, habitual falsehood, if we may judge from experience, infers absolute depravity.

4. In algebra, the raising of a quantity from its root to any power assigned. Thus 2x2x2=8. Here 8, the third power of 2, is found in involution or multiplying the number into itself, and the product by the same number.

Involve

INVOLVE, verb transitive involv'. [Latin involvo; in and volvo, to roll, Eng. to wallow.]

1. To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve one in smoke or dust.

2. To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity.

3. To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction.

4. To entwist; to join; to connect.

He knows his end with mine involved.

5. To take in; to catch; to conjoin.

The gathering number, as it moves along,

INVOLVEs a vast involuntary throng.

6. To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty.

7. To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress.

8. To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate.

Some involved their snaky folds.

Florid, witty, involved discourses.

9. To blend; to mingle confusedly.

10. In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

Involved

INVOLV'ED, participle passive Enveloped; implied; inwrapped; entangled.

Involving

INVOLV'ING, participle present tense Enveloping; implying; comprising; entangling; complicating.

Invulnerability

INVULNERABIL'ITY

INVUL'NERABLE, adjective [Latin invulnerabilis. See Vulnerable.]

That cannot be wounded; incapable of receiving injury.

Nor vainly hope

To be invulnerable in those bright arms.

Invulnerable

INVUL'NERABLE, a. [L. invulnerabilis. See Vulnerable.]

That cannot be wounded; incapable of receiving injury. Nor vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms.

Invulnerableness

INVUL'NERABLENESS, noun [from invulnerable.] The quality or state of being invulnerable, or secure from wounds or injury.

Inwall

INWALL', verb transitive [in and wall.] To inclose or fortify with a wall.

Inward

IN'WARD, adjective

1. Internal; interior; placed or being within; as the inward structure of the body.

2. Intimate; domestic; familiar.

3. Seated in the mind or soul.

IN'WARD

Inwardly

IN'WARDLY, adverb In the inner parts; internally.

Let Benedict, like covered fire,

Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly

1. In the heart; privately; secretly. He inwardly repines. It is not easy to treat with respect a person whom we inwardly despise.

2. Towards the center.

Inwardness

IN'WARDNESS, noun Intimacy; familiarity. [Not used.]

1. Internal state. [Unusual.]

IN'WARDS, noun plural The inner parts of an animal; the bowels; the viscera. Exodus 29:1.

Inwards

IN'WARDS, adverb Toward the inside. Turn the attention inward.

1. Toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

2. Into the mind or thoughts.

Celestial light shine inward.

Inweave

INWE'AVE, verb transitive preterit tense inwove; participle passive inwoven, inwove. [in and weave.]

To weave together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving.

Down they cast

Their crowns inwove with amaranth and gold.

Inwheel

INWHEE'L, verb transitive [in and wheel.] To encircle.

Inwit

IN'WIT, noun [in and wit.] Mind; understanding.

Inwood

INWOOD', verb transitive To hide in woods.

Inworking

INWORK'ING, participle present tense or adjective [in and work.]

Working or operating within.

INWORK'ING, noun Internal operation; energy within.

Inwove

INWO'VE

INWO'VEN, participle passive of inweave. Woven in; intertwined by weaving.

Inwrap

INWRAP, verb transitive inrap'. [in and wrap.] To involve; to infold; to cover by wrapping; as, to be inwrapped in smoke or in a cloud; to inwrap in a cloke.

1. To involve in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex.

2. To ravish or transport.

Inwreathe

INWREATHE, verb transitive inre'the. [in and wreathe.]

To surround or encompass as with a wreath, or with something in the form of a wreath.

Resplendent locks inwreathed with beams.

Inwrought

INWROUGHT, participle passive or adjective inraut'. [in and wrought, from work.]

Wrought or worked in or among other things, adorned with figures.

Iodate

I'ODATE, noun [See Iodine.]

A compound consisting of oxygen, iodin and a base.

Iodic

I'ODIC, adjective iodic acid is a compound of iodin and oxygen.

Iodide

I'ODIDE, noun A compound of iodin with a metal or other substance.

Iodin

I'ODIN

I'ODINE, noun [Gr. resembling a violet.] In chimistry, a peculiar substance recently discovered by Courtois, a manufacturer of salt-peter in Paris. It is obtained from certain sea-weeds or marine plants. At the ordinary temperature of the atmosphere it is a solid, apparently a simple substance, at least hitherto undecomposed. It is incombustible, but in combining with several bodies, it exhibits the phenomena of combustion; hence it has been considered a supporter of combustion. Like chlorine, it destroys vegetable colors, but with less energy. Its color is bluish black or grayish black, of a metallic luster. It is often in scales, resembling those of micaceous iron ore; sometimes in brilliant rhomboidal plates, or in elongated octahedrons. Its taste is acrid, and it is somewhat poisonous. It is fusible at 225 deg. of Fahrenheit. The color of its vapor is a beautiful violet, whence its name.

Iodine

I'ODINE, n. [Gr. resembling a violet.] In chimistry, a peculiar substance recently discovered by Courtois, a manufacturer of salt-peter in Paris. It is obtained from certain sea-weeds or marine plants. At the ordinary temperature of the atmosphere it is a solid, apparently a simple substance, at least hitherto undecomposed. It is incombustible, but in combining with several bodies, it exhibits the phenomena of combustion; hence it has been considered a supporter of combustion. Like chlorine, it destroys vegetable colors, but with less energy. Its color is bluish black or grayish black, of a metallic luster. It is often in scales, resembling those of micaceous iron ore; sometimes in brilliant rhomboidal plates, or in elongated octahedrons. Its taste is acrid, and it is somewhat poisonous. It is fusible at 225 deg. of Fahrenheit. The color of its vapor is a beautiful violet, whence its name.

Iodous

I'ODOUS, adjective iodous acid is a compound of iodin and oxygen, containing less of the latter than iodic acid.

Ioduret

IOD'URET, noun A compound of iodin and a metallic or other base.

Iolite

I'OLITE, noun [Gr. a violet, and stone.] A mineral of a violet blue color, with a shade of purple or black, called also dichroit and cordierite. It occurs in regular six-sided prisms. Its varieties are peliom and steinheilite.

[Note. By the regular principles of pronouncing the Greek iota and the Shemitic jod, this word ought to be pronounced yolite.]

Ionic

ION'IC, adjective [from Ionia.] The ionic order, in architecture, is that species of column named from Ionia, in Greece. It is more slender than the Doric and Tuscan, but less slender and less ornamented than the Corinthian and Composite. It is simple, but majestic; its highth is 18 modules, and that of the entablature four and a half.

1. The ionic dialect of the Greek language, is the dialect used in Ionia.

2. The ionic sect of philosophers, was that founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the principle of all natural things.

3. Denoting an airy kind of music. The ionic or Ionian mode was, reckoning from grave to acute, the second of the five middle modes.

Ipecacuanha

IPECACUAN'HA, noun A root produced in South America. Four sorts are mentioned, gray, brown, white, and yellow. The gray, or genuine kind, is referred by Mutis to the Psychotria emetica, but more recently by Brotero to the Callicocca ipecacuanha a plant growing in Brazil. These plants have been considered by some as the same, or as species of the same genus. This root is used as an emetic. ipecacuanha is a little wrinkled root about the thickness of a moderate quill, much used as an emetic, and against diarrheas and dysenteries.

Irascibility

IRASCIBIL'ITY

IRAS'CIBLE, adjective [Latin irascor, from ira. See Ire.]

Very susceptible of anger; easily provoked or inflamed with resentment; irritable; as an irascible man; an irascible temper.

Irascible

IRAS'CIBLE, a. [L. irascor, from ira. See Ire.]

Very susceptible of anger; easily provoked or inflamed with resentment; irritable; as an irascible man; an irascible temper.

Irascibleness

IRAS'CIBLENESS, noun [from irascible.] The quality of being irascible, or easily inflamed by anger; irritability of temper.

Ire

IRE, noun [Latin ira, wrath. See Eng. Wrath.] Anger; wrath; keen resentment; a word chiefly used in poetry.

Thus will persist, relentless in his ire

Ireful

I'REFUL, adjective [ire and full.] Angry; wrath; furious with anger.

The ireful bastard Orleans.

Irefully

I'REFULLY, adverb In an angry manner.

Irenarch

I'RENARCH, noun [Gr.] An officer formerly employed in the Greek empire, to preserve the public tranquillity.

Iridescence

IRIDES'CENCE, noun Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow.

Iridescent

IRIDES'CENT, adjective [from iris.] Having colors like the rainbow.

Iridium

IRID'IUM, noun [from iris.] A metal of a whitish color, not malleable, found in the ore of platinum, and in a native allow with osmium. Its specific gravity is above 18. It takes its name from the variety of colors which it exhibits while dissolving in muriatic acid. The native allow with osmium, or native iridium is of a steel gray color and shining metallic luster. It usually occurs in small irregular flat grains, in alluvial soil, in S. America.

Iris

I'RIS, noun plural irises. [Latin iris iridis, the rainbow.]

1. The rainbow.

2. An appearance resembling the rainbow.

3. The colored circle which surrounds the pupil of the eye, by means of which that opening is enlarged and diminished.

4. The changeable colors which sometimes appear in the glasses of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

5. A colored spectrum which a triangular glass prism casts on a wall, when placed at a due angle in the sun-beams.

6. The flower-de-lis, or flag-=flower, a genus of many species.

Irisated

I'RISATED, adjective Exhibiting the prismatic colors; resembling the rainbow.

Irised

I'RISED, adjective Containing colors like those of the rainbow.

Irish

I'RISH, adjective Pertaining to Ireland.

I'RISH, noun A native of Ireland.

1. The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

Irishism

I'RISHISM, noun A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish.

Irk

IRK, verb transitive urk. To weary; to give pain to; used only impersonally; as, it irketh me, it gives me uneasiness. It is nearly obsolete.

Irksome

IRK'SOME, adjective Wearisome; tedious; tiresome; giving uneasiness; used of something troublesome by long continuance or repetition; as irksome hours; irksome toil or task.

Irksomely

IRK'SOMELY, adverb In a wearisome or tedious manner.

Irksomeness

IRK'SOMENESS, noun Tediousness; wearisomeness.

Iron

IRON, noun i'urn, or i'rn. [Latin ferrum, for herrum. The radical elements of this word are not easily ascertained.]

1. A metal, the hardest, most common and most useful of all the metals; of a livid whitish color inclined to gray, internally composed, to appearance, of small facets, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is so hard and elastic as to be capable of destroying the aggregation of any other metal. Next to tin, it is the lightest of all metallic substances, and next to gold, the most tenacious. It may be hammered into plates, but not into leaves. Its ductility is more considerable. It has the property of magnetism; it is attracted by the lodestone, and will acquire its properties. It is found rarely in native masses, but in ores, mineralized by different substances, it abounds in every part of the earth. Its medicinal qualities are valuable.

2. An instrument or utensil made of iron; as a flat-iron, a smoothing-iron.

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? Job 41:27.

3. Figuratively, strength; power; as a rod of iron Daniel 2:33.

4. Irons, plural fetters; chains; manacles; handcuffs. Psalms 105:18.

I'RON, adjective Made of iron; consisting of iron; as an iron gate; an iron bar; iron dust.

1. Resembling iron in color; as an iron gray color.

2. Harsh; rude; severe; miserable; as the iron age of the world.

IRON years of wars and dangers.

Jove crush'd the nations with an iron rod.

3. Binding fast; not to be broken; as the iron sleep of death.

4. Hard of understanding; dull; as an iron witted fool.

5. Firm; robust; as an iron constitution.

I'RON, verb transitive To smooth with an instrument of iron

1. To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

2. To furnish or arm with iron

Iron-Clay

I'RON-CLAY, noun A substance intermediate between basalt and wacky, of a reddish brown color, and occurring massive or vesicular.

Ironed

I'RONED, participle passive Smoothed with an iron; shackled; armed with iron.

Ironflint

I'RONFLINT, noun Ferruginous quartz; a subspecies of quartz, opake or translucent at the edges, with a fracture more or less conchoidal, shining and nearly vitreous. It is sometimes in very minute and perfect six-sided prisms, terminated at both extremities by six-sides pyramids. It occurs also in masses, and in small grains. Its varieties are red, yellow, and greenish.

Ironhearted

I'RONHE'ARTED, adjective Hardhearted; unfeeling; cruel.

Ironical

IRON'ICAL, adjective Expressing one thing and meaning another. An ironical expression is often accompanied with a manner of utterance which indicates that the speaker intends to be understood in a sense directly contrary to that which the words convey.

Ironically

IRON'ICALLY, adverb By way of irony; by the use of irony. A commendation may be ironically severe.

Ironist

I'RONIST, noun One who deals in irony.

Ironmold

I'RONMOLD, noun A spot on cloth made by applying rusty iron to the cloth when wet.

Ironmonger

I'RONMONGER, noun A dealer in iron wares or hardware.

Ironsick

I'RONSICK, adjective In seamen's language, a ship is said to be ironsick when her bolts and nails are so much corroded or eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Ironstone

I'RONSTONE, noun An ore of iron.

Ironwood

I'RONWOOD, noun The popular name of a genus of trees called Sideroxylon, of several species; so called from their hardness.

Ironwork

I'RONWORK, noun A general name of the parts or pieces of a building which consist of iron; any thing made of iron.

Ironworks

I'RONWORKS, noun plural The works or establishment where pig-iron is wrought into bars, etc.

Ironwort

I'RONWORT, noun A genus of plants called Sideritis, of several species.

Irony

I'RONY, adjective [from iron.] Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; as irony chains; irony particles.

1. Resembling iron; hard.

I'RONY, [Latin ironia; Gr. a dissembler in speech.]

A mode of speech expressing a sense contrary to that which the speaker intends to convey; as, Nero was a very virtuous prince; Pope Hildebrand was remarkable for his meekness and humility. when irony is uttered, the dissimulation is generally apparent from the manner of speaking, as by a smile or an arch look, or perhaps by an affected gravity of countenance. irony in writing may also be detected by the manner of expression.

Irous

I'ROUS, adjective [from ire.] Apt to be angry.

Irradiance

IRRA'DIANCE

IRRA'DIANCY, noun [Latin irradians, from irradio. See Irradiate.]

1. Emission of rays of light on an object.

2. Beams of light emitted; luster; splendor.

Irradiancy

IRRA'DIANCY, n. [L. irradians, from irradio. See Irradiate.] 1. Emission of rays of light on an object.2. Beams of light emitted; luster; splendor.

Irradiate

IRRA'DIATE, verb transitive [Latin irradio; in and radio, to shine. See Ray.]

1. To illuminate; to brighten; to make splendid; to adorn with luster.

2. To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate; as, to irradiate the mind.

3. To animate by heat or light.

4. To decorate with shining ornaments.

IRRA'DIATE, verb intransitive To emit rays; to shine.

IRRA'DIATE, adjective Adorned with shining ornaments.

Irradiated

IRRA'DIATED, participle passive Illuminated; enlightened; made luminous or bright; decorated with rays of light or with something shining.

Irradiating

IRRA'DIATING, participle present tense Illuminating; decorating with beams of light.

Irradiation

IRRADIA'TION, noun The act of emitting beams of light.

1. Illumination; brightness.

2. Intellectual light.

3. The act of emitting minute particles or effluvia from some substance.

Irrational

IRRA'TIONAL, adjective [Latin irrationalis; in and rationalis, from ratio.]

1. Not rational; void of reason or understanding. Brutes are irrational animals.

2. Not according to the dictates of reason; contrary to reason; absurd. To pursue a course of life which destroys happiness, is irrational

Irrationality

IRRATIONAL'ITY, noun Want of reason or the powers of understanding.

Irrationally

IRRA'TIONALLY, adverb Without reason; in a manner contrary to reason; absurdly.

Irreclaimable

IRRECLA'IMABLE, adjective [in and reclaimable.]

1. Not to be reclaimed; that cannot be recalled from error or vice; that cannot be brought to reform.

2. That cannot be tamed.

Irreclaimably

IRRECLA'IMABLY, adverb So as not to admit of reformation.

Irreconcilable

IRRECONCI'LABLE, adjective [in and reconcilable.]

1. Not to be recalled to amity, or a state of friendship and kindness; retaining enmity that cannot be appeased or subdued; as an irreconcilable enemy or faction.

2. That cannot be appeased or subdued; as irreconcilable enmity or hatred.

3. That cannot be made to agree or be consistent; incongruous; incompatible; as irreconcilable absurdities. It is followed by with or to. A man's conduct may be irreconcilable to or with his avowed principles.

Irreconcilableness

IRRECONCI'LABLENESS, noun The quality of being irreconcilable; incongruity; incompatibility.

Irreconcilably

IRRECONCI'LABLY, adverb In a manner that precludes reconciliation. Men may be irreconcilably opposed to each other.

Irreconcile

IRREC'ONCILE, verb transitive To prevent from being reconciled.

Irreconciled

IRRECONCI'LED, adjective [in and reconciled.]

1. Not reconciled.

2. Not atoned for.