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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.

Inhesion

The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.

Inhiation

A gaping after; eager desire; craving.

inhibited

held back or restrained or prevented; as, in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear; -- of behaviors. Opposite of uninhibited.

inhibiting

discouraging (a person) from action by threat of punishment; as, an overly strict or inhibiting discipline.

Inhibitor

That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.

Inhibitory

Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.

Inhibitory-motor

A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue.

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