The preparation of microorganisms which is inoculated{5} into a growth medium; as, a small inoculum may not work well for the production phase of a fermentation.

To make odious or hateful.

Inodorous; odorless.

Emitting no odor; without smell; scentless; odorless.

Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

Not official; not having official sanction or authority; unofficial; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence.

Without the usual forms, or not in the official character; unofficially.

Indifferent to obligation or duty.

Not officiously.

A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

Agency; influence; production of effects.

Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.

Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

Not to be expected; inconceivable.

Not expected or looked for.

Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.

Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.

Lack of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience.

Not oppressive or burdensome.

Not opulent; not affluent or rich.

The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire.

Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world.

Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy.

Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate.

Inorganic.

In an inorganic manner.

Quality of being inorganic.

The state of being without organization.

Not having organic structure; devoid of organs; inorganic.

Deviation from correct orthography; bad spelling.

To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body.

The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc.

A ribonucleoside (C10H12N4O5) found in meat and meat extracts, differing from adenosine in having a hydroxyl rather than an amine attached to the purine ring. It may be prepared from adenosine by the enzyme adenosine deaminase, or by chemical deamination, as with nitrous acid. It participates in some cellular functions, but is not one of the normal nucleoside components of RNA.

Pertaining to, or derived from, inosite; as, inosinic acid.

Same as inositol.

A white crystalline substance (C6H12O6) with a sweet taste, widely distributed in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, and also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Although isomeric with dextrose, it has no carbonyl (aldehyde or ketone) group, and is therefore not a carbohydrate, but a derivative of cyclohexane. Called also inosite, cyclohexitol, cyclohexanehexol, hexahydroxycyclohexane and phaseomannite. There are nine possible steroisomers, not all of which are found naturally. The predominate natural form is cis-1,2,3,5-trans-4,6-cyclohexanehexol, also called myo-inositol. The naturally occurring phytic acid in plants is the hexaphosphate of inositol, from which inositol may be manufactured; phytin is the calcium-magnesium salt of phytic acid. It is also a component of phosphatidylinositol.

Incapable of being oxidized; as, gold and platinum are inoxidizable in the air.

To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.

A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.

Quartation.

Inquiry; quest; search.

To disquiet.

Disturbance.

Unquietness.

Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude.

A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.

To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul.

A defiling; pollution; stain.

Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest.

Inquiry.

To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.

Making inquiry; inquiring; questioning.

One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.

Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind.

In an inquiring manner.

The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

Admitting judicial inquiry.

To make inquisition concerning; to inquire into.

Relating to inquiry or inquisition; inquisitorial; also, of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Inquisition.

Inquisitional.

In an inquisitive manner.

The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity.

An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions.

Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.

In an inquisitorial manner.

Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial.

Inquisitorial.

To enroot or implant.

To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails.

To register; to enter, as in a register.

A small closed receptacle or set of receptacles of hard material, as lacquered wood, iron, bronze, or ivory, used by the Japanese to hold medicines, perfumes, and the like, and carried in the girdle. It is usually secured by a silk cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or knob called a netsuke.

To make an inroad into; to invade.

See Enroll.

The act or the place of entrance; an inlet.

To rush in.

The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiarly cut or marked sabots, or shoes.

Insecurity; danger.

The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.

Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.

Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate.

Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.

The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.

Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.

The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.

In an incurable manner.

Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.

Without reason; madly; foolishly.

Insanity; madness.

To render unsound; to make mad.

Insanity.

Not sanitary; unhealthy; unsanitary; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.

Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

Tasteless; unsavory.

The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness.

Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.

Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability.

In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably.

Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst.

Insatiably.

The state of being insatiate.

Insatiableness.

Insufficiency; emptiness.

Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.

Lack of knowledge; ignorance.

Having knowledge or insight; intelligent.

See Ensconce.

Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.

Quality of being inscribable.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

One who inscribes.

Capable of being inscribed; inscribable.

The act or process of inscribing.

Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.

To write on a scroll; to record.

The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.

Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event.

The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutability.

In an inscrutable manner.

To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.