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Incurvate

To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

Incurve

To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

Incurved

Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

Incurvity

A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.

Incuse

Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving.

Incuss Incuse

To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal.

Indagator

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator.

Indart

To pierce, as with a dart.

Indazole

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.

Inde

Azure-colored; of a bright blue color.

Indebt

To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted.

Indebted

Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden.

Indecent

Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.

Indeciduous

Not deciduous or falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial. Opposite of deciduous.

Indecimable

Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes.

Indecipherable

Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved.

Indecision

Lack of decision; lack of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation.

Indeclinable

Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. An indeclinable word.

Indecomposable

Not decomposable; incapable or difficult of decomposition; not resolvable into its constituents or elements.

Indecorous

Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct.

Indeed

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.

Indefatigable

Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application.

Indefatigably

Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently.

Indefeasible

Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title.

Indefectible

Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay.

Indefinable

Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.

Indefinitely

In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely.

Indefinitude

Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite.

Indehiscent

Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.

Indelicacy

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.

Indelicate

Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.

Indemnification

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.

Indenizen

To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.

Indent

A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

Indentation

The act of indenting or state of being indented.

Indented

Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

Indenting

Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

Indenture

To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.

indentured

Bound by contract to work for another for a specified period of time.

Independent

One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

Indeprivable

Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.

Indescribably

In an indescribable manner; to a degree impossible to desribe; as, indescribably beautiful.

Indestructible

Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed; as, the Russian harvesters had primitive electronics, but they were built so sturdily they were almost indestructible.

Indeterminate

Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.

Index

To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.

indexation

a system of economic regulation in which wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to compenaste for the effects of inflation.

Indexical

Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.

Indexterity

Lack of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness.

India

A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.

Indiadem

To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.

Indiaman

A large vessel in the India trade.

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