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.
Breathed in; inhaled.
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.
Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.
One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.
the office or position of an instructor.
A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess.
To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.
The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument.
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality.
Instrumental.
The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
Having instruments attached for the purpose of measuring conditions while under observation; -- said of a person under medical observation or a machine whose performance is being tested.
A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
To style.
Lack of suavity; unpleasantness.
Lack of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
Not capable of being submerged; buoyant.
Lack of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.
The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
Unsubstantial; not real or strong.
Unsubstantiality; unreality.
The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.
Lack of success.
See Ensue, v. i.
The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.
Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs.
In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
Insufficiency.
In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.
The act of breathing on or into anything The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life. The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
Unsuitable.
An islander.
the state of being insulated.
In an insular manner.