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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.

ingraining

teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition.

ingratiating

capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.

ingratiatory

pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; as, her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable.

Ingratitude

Lack of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.

Ingreat

To make great; to enlarge; to magnify.

Ingredient

Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part.

Ingrieve

To render more grievous; to aggravate.

Ingroove

To groove in; to join in or with a groove.

Ingrowing

Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance.

Ingrown

Having grown or appearing to grow into some other substance, especially a fingernail or toenail growing into the adjacent flesh.

Inguinal

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia.

Ingulf

To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf.

Ingulfment

The act of ingulfing, or the state of being ingulfed.

Ingurgitation

The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; that which is so swallowed.

Inhability

Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability.

Inhabit

To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.

Inhabitable

Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited.

Inhabitancy Inhabitance

The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy.

Inhabitativeness

A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.

Inhalant

An apparatus also called an inhaler (which see); also, that which is to be inhaled, especially a medicine taken by inhalation.

Inhalation

The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

Inhale

To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; -- opposed to exhale.

inhaled

drawn into the lungs; breathed in; as, inhaled smoke can damage the lungs. Inverse of exhaled.

Inhalent

Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct.

Inhearse

To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin.

Inhere

To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed in or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.

Inherency Inherence

The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection.

Inherent

Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection.

Inherit

To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.

Inheritability

The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.

Inheritable

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.

inherited

tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; as, an inherited disease.

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