To yoke or harness, as oxen to a vehicle.
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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.
Insular.
Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
One who, or that which, insulates.
An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.
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