See Entice.

the innermost coat of an organ, such as a blood vessel. It usually consists of an endothelial layer of cells, backed by connective tissue and elastic tissue.

The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

of or pertaining to the intima.

An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.

In an intimate manner.

Inward; internal; intimate.

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.

made timid or fearful as by threats.

discouraging; inhibiting; deterring. Opposite of encouraging.

The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.

Tending or serving to intimidate.

The lack of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies.

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

See Entire, a., Entirely, adv.

See Entitle.

To entitle; to give a title to.

To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness.

Intolerance.

An intolerant person; a bigot.

In an intolerant manner.

Not tolerated.

Intolerant.

Intolerance; lack of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

See Entombment.

To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.

The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.

To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate.

To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring.

See Intorsion.

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.

Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.

A poisoning, as by a alcoholic or a narcotic substance.

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells; intracellular enzymes. Contrasted with extracellular.

Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve.

Within the cranium or skull.

The quality of being intractable; intractableness.

Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.

relating to areas between the layers of the skin.

relating to areas between the layers of the skin.

same as intradermal.

The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.

Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

Situated within the margin.

Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.

Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies.

Being within the material world; -- opposed to extramundane.

Being within the walls, as of a city.

Unquietness; restlessness.

Impervious to heat; adiathermic.

Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed.

Not transient; remaining; permanent.

Refusing compromise; uncompromising; inflexible; irreconcilable.

Not passing farther; kept; detained.

Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

Not capable of being transmitted; as, an intransmissable illness.

The quality of being intransmutable.

Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance.

One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station.

Of or pertaining to, or located on the inside of a nucleus; taking place within a nucleus; referring especially to the nucleus of a cell; as, the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis.

See Entrap.

Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired.

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.

Within the territory or a territory.

Within the thorax or chest.

Within the tropics.

Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage; an intrauterine device.

A contraceptive device consisting of a small, usually plastic object placed within the uterus to prevent conception; also called IUD.

Between valves.

Within the veins.

Within or between ventricles.

To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard.

See Entreat.

Not to be entreated; inexorable.

Entreaty.

Full of entreaty.

To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown.

Not to be gashed or marked with furrows.

Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.

The quality or state of being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor.

In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.

Entangling.

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.

To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.

In an intricate manner.

The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.

Entanglement.

A female intriguer.

To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.

One who intrigues.

Arts or practice of intrigue.

By means of, or in the manner of, intrigue.

Tightly drawn; or (perhaps) intricate.

A genuine quality.

The quality of being intrinsic; essentialness; genuineness; reality.

Internally; in its nature; essentially; really; truly.

The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.

Intricate.

A depression, or inward sinking of parts.

Introduction.

One who, or that which, introduces.

To introduce.

Serving to introduce; introductory.

An introducer.

By way of introduction.

Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

A female introducer.

Flexed or bent inward.

The act of going in; entrance.

To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

One who intromits.

Pressure acting within.

The act of admitting into or within.