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.

Unseasonably.

Unseasonableness; untimeliness.

Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress.

Attentive.

One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover.

Intentionally.

See Intendant, n.

One who intends.

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding.

Made tender or soft; softened.

The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening.

Incapable of holding or containing.

To intensify.

The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax.

Adding intensity; intensifying.

Intently.

The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.

The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

made more severe or intense, especially in law.

One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.

To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

increasing in strength or intensity.

Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence.

That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim.

Intention.

Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental. Opposite of unintentional or unintended.

The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design.

In an intentional manner; with intention; by design; of purpose.

Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well-intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having ill designs.

Attentive; intent.

Attentively; closely.

Closeness of attention or application of mind; attentiveness.

In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed.

The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention.

To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.

To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact.

Intermediate action.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Intermediate agency.

An intermediate agent.

Entrail or inside.

Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs.

Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

Situated between rivers.

To animate or inspire mutually.

The interweaving of branches of trees.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies; as, interatomic forces.

Existing between royal courts.

Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart.

Situated in an interaxis.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

The space between two axes. See Axis, 6.

Patchwork.

Between the arms.

See Thalamencephalon.

Between the branchi/.

To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.

Intercalary.

Situated between the external and internal carotid arteries; as, an intercarotid ganglion.

Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments.

Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.

Between the cavernous sinuses; as, the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain.

To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate.

The act of interceding; intercession; intervention.

Passing between; mediating; pleading.

One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator.

Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.

Between centers.

The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebr/ in some fossil batrachians.

A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.

One who, or that which, intercepts.

The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.

Intercepting or tending to intercept.

Same as intercepter.

The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession or entreaty.

To entreat.

Intercessory.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer.

To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain.