Serving for incubation.
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To fix firmly, as in cube; to secure or place firmly.
Incubation.
Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.
To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.
A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions.
One who inculcates.
To inculcate.
To inculpate.
Faultless; blameless; innocent.
Blamelessness; faultlessness.
Blamelessly.
To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. Contrasted with exculpate.
Blame; censure; crimination.
Inculpatory.
Imputing blame; causing blame to be imputed to; criminatory; compromising; implicating. Opposite of exculpatory.
Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized.
Uncultivated.
Lack of cultivation.
Want or neglect of cultivation or culture.
A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.
In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.
See Encumber.
Incubation.
One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
Cumbersome; troublesome.
A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before a. d. 1500.
To pass; to enter.
The state of being incurable; irremediableness.
A person diseased beyond cure.
The state of being incurable; incurability.
In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably.
Lack of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference.
Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.
In an curious manner.
Unconcernedness; incuriosity.
The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc.
Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.
Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile.
To curtain.
To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
To bend; to curve; to make crooked.
Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.
Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving.
To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal.
To strike or stamp in.
See Encyst.
See Encysted.
India.
To seek or search out.
Search; inquiry; investigation.
Searching; exploring; investigating.
A searcher; an explorer; an investigator.
See Endamage.
Not damaged.
To pierce, as with a dart.
A bicyclic nitrogenous compound, C7H6N2, analogous to indole, having a benzene ring fused to a pyrazole ring; called also indazol and benzopyrazole. It can be produced from a diazo derivative of cinnamic acid.
Azure-colored; of a bright blue color.
See Endear.
To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted.
Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden.
The state of being indebted.
Indebtedness.
See Indecency.
Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.
In an indecent manner.
Indeciduous.
Not deciduous or falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial. Opposite of deciduous.
Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes.
Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved.
Lack of decision; lack of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation.
Without decision.
The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. An indeclinable word.
Without variation.
Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements.
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct.
In an indecorous manner.
The quality of being indecorous; lack of decorum.
In reality; in truth; in fact; verily; truly; -- used in a variety of senses. Esp.: (a) Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so. (b) Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you? Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies.
The state of being indefatigable.
Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application.
Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency.
Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently.
Indefatigableness; unweariedness.
The quality of being indefeasible.
Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title.
The quality of being indefectible.
Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay.
Not defective; perfect; complete.
Indefeasible.
The quality or state of not being defensible.
In an indefensible manner.
Defenseless.
The state or quality of not being deficient.
Not deficient; full.
Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
In an indefinable manner.
In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely.
The quality of being indefinite.
Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite.
The property or state of being indehiscent.
Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.
Not delectable; unpleasant; disagreeable.
Done without deliberation; unpremeditated.
Indeliberate.
The quality of being indelible.
The quality of being indelicate; lack of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.
The act or process of indemnifying, preserving, or securing against loss, damage, or penalty; reimbursement of loss, damage, or penalty; the state of being indemnified.
The quality of being indemonstrable.
Incapable of being demonstrated.
The act of naturalizing; endenization.
To naturalize.
To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
The act of indenting or state of being indented.
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
With indentations.
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