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.

A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.

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.

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.

Inscription.

An engraving, carving, or inscription.

Engraved.

To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.

An inside seam of an article of clothing; especially, the seam that runs from the crotch of a trouser leg down to the bottom.

To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.

Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.

Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.

One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antenn/, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache/, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.

A place for keeping living insects.

The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution.

A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic.

Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect.

An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects.

A cutting in; incisure; incision.

An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.

One of the Insectivora.

Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc. the Insectivora, and many bats, birds, and reptiles.

An entomologist.

Entomology.

Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.

In an insecure manner.

Insecurity.

The condition or quality of being insecure; lack of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.

A following after; close pursuit.

To sow seed into.

same as fertilized, 1.

A sowing.

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.

To make to understand; to instruct.

Insensibility.

In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

Not sensuous; not pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses.

The state or quality of being insentient; lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations.

Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparableness.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability.

In an inseparable manner or condition; so as not to be separable.

Not separate; together; united.

Inseparably.

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.

Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle.

A setting in.

To be of use to an end; to serve.

Conducive; instrumental.

One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds.

An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.

Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.

That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.

Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable.

Marked with different shades.

A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe.