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.

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.

Abounding in islands.

Insipid; dull; stupid.

Insipidity; stupidity; dullness.

To leap or jump.

Capable of being insulted or affronted.

One who insults.

Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc.

Insolent treatment; insult.

To take in; to absorb.

The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.

Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.

Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.

Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.

That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.

Insuppressible.

Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured.

One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter.

The person insured, called also the insured.

To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.

A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

The state or quality of being insurmountable.

Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability.

In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome.

Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.

One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.

Lack of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.

Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery; new strains of bacteria insusceptible to penicillin.

Not susceptive or susceptible.

The act of whispering into something.

To wrap up; to infold; to swathe.

Narrowed at the forward end; -- said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.

Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire.

Not perceptible to the touch.

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone.

A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

See Entail, v. t.

The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to outlet.

Uncontaminated.

The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.

Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.

See Entangle.

Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory.