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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.

Indiscriminate

Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous.

Indispensableness

The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary.

Indisputable

Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute.

Indissolvable

Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated; incapable of separation; perpetually firm and binding; indissoluble; as, an indissolvable bond of union.

Indistancy

Lack of distance or separation; nearness.

Indistinction

Lack of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination.

Indistinctly

In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended.

Indistinctness

The quality or condition of being indistinct; lack of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.

Indistinguishable

Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form or color; the difference between them was indisguishable.

Indistinguishing

Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities.

Indisturbance

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

Inditch

To bury in, or cast into, a ditch.

Indite

To compose; to write, as a poem.

Indium

A rare metallic element, of atomic number 49, discovered in certain ores of zinc, by means of its characteristic spectrum of two indigo blue lines; hence, its name. In appearance it resembles zinc, being white or lead gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium (valence +3). Symbol In. Atomic weight, 114.82.

Individual

A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.

Individualization

The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation.

Individualize

To mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality; to give distinctive character to; to make distinctive; to enable differentiation from others of similar type; -- of properties of things.

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