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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.

Indian

A native or inhabitant of India.

Indicant

That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the remedy for a disease.

Indicated

Shown; denoted; registered; measured.

Indicatively

In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.

Indicatory

Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.

Indicatrix

A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.

Indicavit

A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts.

Indicia

Discriminating marks; signs; tokens; indications; appearances.

Indicolite

A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color.

Indictable

Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense.

Indies

A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.

Indifferency

Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference.

Indifferently

In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably.

Indifulvin

A reddish resinous substance, obtained from indican.

Indifuscin

A brown amorphous powder, obtained from indican.

Indigence

The condition of being indigent; lack of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless indigence.

Indigene

One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon.

Indigestibility

The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness.

Indigestion

Discomfort due to a lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

Indigitate

To point out with the finger; to indicate.

Indigitation

The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication.

Indiglucin

The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution.

Indign

Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading.

Indignant

Affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation.

Indignify

To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn.

Indignity

Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult.

Indigo

Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.

Indigofera

A genus of leguminous plants (family Leguminosae) having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, Indigofera suffroticosa, and Indigofera Anil.

Indigometer

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of an indigo solution, as in volumetric analysis.

Indigometry

The art or method of determining the coloring power of indigo.

Indigotic

Pertaining to, or derived from, indigo; as, indigotic acid, which is also called anilic or nitrosalicylic acid.

Indihumin

A brown amorphous substance resembling humin, and obtained from indican.

Indin

A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.

Indirection

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

Indirectly

In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly.

Indirectness

The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

Indiretin

A dark brown resinous substance obtained from indican.

Indirubin

A substance isomeric with, and resembling, indigo blue, and accompanying it as a side product, in its artificial production.

Indiscernible

Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.

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