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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.

Incinerable

Capable of being incinerated or reduced to ashes.

Incinerate

To burn to ashes; to consume by fire; to burn.

Incineration

The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.

Incipient

Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.

Incircumspect

Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic.

incisiveness

keenness and forcefulnelss of thought or expression or intellect.

Incisor

Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.

Incisory

Having the quality of cutting; incisor; incisive.

Incitant

That which incites; an inciting agent or cause; a stimulant.

Incitative

A provocative; an incitant; a stimulant.

Incite

To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

Inciter

One who, or that which, incites.

Incito-motor

Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.

Incivilization

The state of being uncivilized; lack of civilization; barbarism.

Incivism

Lack of civism; lack of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government.

Inclasp

To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle.

Inclave

Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.

Inclinatory

Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle.

Incline

An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

Inclined

Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue.

Incliner

One who, or that which, inclines; an inclined dial.

Inclinnometer

An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.

Incloister

To confine as in a cloister; to cloister.

Incloser

One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

Incloud

To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure.

Inclusa

A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example.

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