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Infraction

The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law.

Infractor

One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker.

Infralabial

Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.

Infralapsarian

Of or pertaining to the Infralapsarians, or to their doctrine.

Inframarginal

Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain.

Inframaxillary

Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the lower iaw.

Inframedian

Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.

Infrangibility

The quality or state of being infrangible; infrangibleness.

Infrangible

Not capable of being broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms.

Infraocular

Situated below the eyes, as the antenna of certain insects.

Infraorbital

Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.

Infrared Radiation

electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of between 700 nanometers and 1 millimeter.

Infrascapular

Beneath the scapula, or shoulder blade; subscapular.

Infraspinal

Below the vertebral column, subvertebral. Below the spine; infraspinate; infraspinous.

Infraspinous Infraspinate

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

Infrastapedial

Of or pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes. The infrastapedial part of the columella.

Infrasternal

Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.

Infratrochlear

Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

Infrequent

Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual.

Infrigidation

The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation.

Infringe

To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend.

Infringement

The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.

Infringer

One who infringes or violates; a violator.

Infructuose

Not producing fruit; unfruitful; unprofitable.

Infrugal

Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time.

Infucation

The act of painting or staining, especially of painting the face.

Infula

A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white.

Infumate

To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

Infumated

Clouded; having a cloudy appearance.

Infundibulum

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

Infuneral

To inter with funeral rites; to bury.

Infurcation

A forked expansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching.

Infuriate

To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate.

infuriating

extremely annoying or displeasing; causing intense anger.

Infuscate

To darken; to make black; to obscure.

Infuscation

The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity.

Infuser

One who, or that which, infuses.

Infusibility

Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon.

Infusible

Not fusible; incapable or difficult of fusion, or of being dissolved or melted.

Infusion

The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.

Infusionism

The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to traducianism and creationism.

Infusive

Having the power of infusion; inspiring; influencing.

Infusoria

One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size. Formerly, the term was applied to any microbe found in infusions of decaying organic material, but the term is now applied more specifically to one of the classes of the phylum Ciliophora, of ciliated protozoans.

Infusorial

Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth.

Infusory

One of the Infusoria; -- usually in the pl.

Ing

A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river.

Ingathering

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.

Ingenerable

Incapable of being engendered or produced; original.

Ingenerate

To generate or produce within; to beget; to engender; to occasion; to cause.

Ingenious

Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.

Ingeniously

In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly.

Ingenue

An ingenuous or na/ve girl or young woman, or an actress representing such a person.

Ingenuity

The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.

Ingenuous

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

Ingenuously

In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly.

Ingenuousness

The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.

Ingeny

Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.

Ingest

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

Ingesta

That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.

Ingestion

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

Ingle

To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle.

Inglobate

In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.

Inglobe

To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly.

Ingloriously

In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.

Ingluvial

Of or pertaining to the ingluvies or crop of birds.

Ingrain

An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.

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