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.

Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned.

To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on.

To yoke or harness, as oxen to a vehicle.

Inspection.

The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation.

Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.

One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer.

Inspectorship.

Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.

The office of an inspector.

A female inspector.

To sprinkle; to scatter.

The act of sprinkling.

The first word of ancient charters in England, confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant.

To place in, or as in, an orb a sphere. Cf. Ensphere.

Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration.

Pertaining to inspiration.

One who holds to inspiration.

A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.

Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration; as, the inspiratory muscles.

One who, or that which, inspires.

Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.

Thick or thickened; inspissated.

The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.

in or of the present month; same as instant{3}, a. or instant{2}, n.; as, your letter of the 10th inst..

Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.

Instability; unstableness.

the act of installing something (as equipment).

The act of installing; installation.

See Enstamp.

To give an example.

Instance; urgency.

Instantly.

Quality of being instantaneous.

Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter.

Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.

a postembryonic stage of life of an arthropod, especially an insect, between two successive molts; also, the arthropod when in that stage of life.

To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.

To renew or renovate.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

One who renews or restores to a former condition.

To renew or renovate; to instaurate.

To steep or soak; to drench.

one who instigates; someone who deliberately provokes trouble; an instigator.

To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.

Incitingly; temptingly.

The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness.

arousing to action or rebellion.

One who instigates or incites.

same as instill.

To drop in; to pour in drop by drop.

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled.

An instiller.

Belonging to instillation.

One who instills.

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled.

To stimulate; to excite.

Stimulation.

To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.

Instinct; incitement; inspiration.

Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous.

In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.

The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.

See Exstipulate.

Established; organized; founded.

An institutor.

Pertaining to, or treating of, an institution or institutions; as, institutional legends.

Relating to an institution, or institutions.

A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes.

Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish.

In conformity with an institution.

To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams.

To store up; to inclose; to contain.

Interstratified.

An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.

Arranged; furnished; provided.

See Instructor.

Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible.

Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.