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.

To hide in a shell.

Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.

See Enshrine.

The act or process of drying in.

The part within; interior or internal portion; content.

an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations, especially information relating to profitability.

To lie in ambush for.

One who lies in ambush.

A subtle and cumulative harmfulness, especially of a disease.

A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

having intellectual depth; having or showing an exceptional degree of insight{2}; -- of people or their comments.

keen insight{2}.

The condition or quality of being insignificant; lack of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.

Insignificance.

Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose.

Not expressing meaning; not significant.

A token, mark, or explanation.

To accuse.

Without sincerity.

The quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard.

To strengthen, as with sinews; to invigorate.

Insinuating; insinuative.

To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.

Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly.

By insinuation.

One who, or that which, insinuates.

Insinuative.

In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly.

The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity.

Lack of intelligence; stupidity; folly.

Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish. An insipient person.

The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; insistence.

In an insistent manner.

A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence.

Freedom from thirst.

The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.

One who insnares.

To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl.

Lack of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.

The quality of being insociable; lack of sociability; unsociability.

Unsociably.

Not associate; without a companion; single; solitary; recluse.

To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.

The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc., placed inside the shoe for warmth or ease.

To insult.

Insolence.

In an insolent manner.

Lack of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument.

The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility.

Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.

The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency. Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate.

One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders.

Lack of sleep; inability to sleep, especially when chronic; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

Restless; sleepless.

Sleeplessness.

So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch.

Not clear or melodious.

In sooth; truly.

Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern.