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Inauration

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

Inauspicious

Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.

Inbarge

To embark; to go or put into a barge.

Inbeing

Inherence; inherent existence.

Inboard

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard engine; an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

Inborn

Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; congenital; as, inborn passions.

Inbred

Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.

Inc

A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

Inca

An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun. The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.

Incage

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up.

Incalculable

Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great; as, his action did incalculable harm.

Incalescence

The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm.

Incameration

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

Incan

Of or pertaining to the Incas.

Incandescence

A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.

Incandescent

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.

Incanton

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community.

Incapable

One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.

Incapableness

The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.

Incapacious

Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul.

Incapacitation

The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.

Incapsulation

The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.

Incarnate

To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.

Incarnative

Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative. An incarnative medicine.

Incarnification

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

Incase

To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid.

Incask

To cover with a casque or as with a casque.

Incautious

Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark.

Incavation

Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an excavation; a depression.

Incelebrity

Lack of celebrity or distinction; obscurity.

Incendiarism

The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

Incendious

Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.

Incensant

A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

Incensement

Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement.

Incension

The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire.

Incensive

Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.

Incensor

A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.

Incensory

The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible.

Incenter

The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

Incentive

That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.

Inceptive

An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.

Inceptor

A beginner; one in the rudiments.

Inceration

The act of smearing or covering with wax.

Incessancy

The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.

Incessant

Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.

Incession

Motion on foot; progress in walking.

Incest

The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law; sexual relations between closely related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer.

Incesttuous

Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, incest; as, an incestuous person or connection.

Inch

Measuring an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank.

Inched

Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge.

Inchoation

Act of beginning; commencement; inception.

Inchoative

Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.

Inchon

The name of a town in Korea and of a battle in the Korean War (1950), in which United Nations forces made an amphibious landing at Inchon, a harbor on the west coast of Korea.

Inchworm

The larva of any geometrid moth. It progresses forward by first bringing the rear end of the body forward, forming a loop, then moving the front part of the body; called also measuring worm, measuringworm, spanner, and looper. See Geometrid.

Incide

To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines.

Incident

That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.

Incidental

An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural, an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals.

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