The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
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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.
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.
A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.
The quality of being integrable.
Capable of being integrated.
A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
Entireness.
In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration.
Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral.
Formed or united into a whole.
the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.
tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.
That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.
Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.
That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.
That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part.
Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.
The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities.
A mental act or process; The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. A creation of the mind itself.
In an intellective manner.
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Intellectual power; intellectuality.
One who overrates the importance of the understanding.
Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.
In an intellectual manner.
One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.
Informing; giving information; talebearing.
Intelligence.
One who gives information; an intelligencer.
In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
an educated and intellectual{2} elite; intellectuals, collectively or considered as a class.
The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility.
In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.
Pure; undefiled.
The state of being unpolluted; purity.
A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part.
Intemperance.
Intemperate.
To disorder.
In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.
The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.
Intemperateness.
Out of season; untimely.
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