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Intime

Inward; internal; intimate.

Intimidate

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

intimidating

discouraging; inhibiting; deterring. Opposite of encouraging.

Intimidation

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.

Intinctivity

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

Intine

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

Into

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

Intoleration

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

Intomb

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

Intonate

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

Intonation

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.

Intone

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

Intort

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

Intoxicant

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

Intoxicating

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

Intoxication

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

Intraaxillary

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

Intracellular

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.

Intracolic

Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve.

Intractable

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

Intractile

Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.

intradermal

relating to areas between the layers of the skin.

Intrados

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

Intrafoliaceous

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

Intrafusion

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

Intralobular

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

Intramercurial

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

Intramolecular

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

Intramundane

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

Intransgressible

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

Intransigent

Refusing compromise; uncompromising; inflexible; irreconcilable.

Intransitively

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

Intransmissible

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

Intransmutable

Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance.

Intrant

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

Intranuclear

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.

Intraparietal

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

Intrapetiolar

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.

Intrauterine

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

intrauterine device

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

Intrench

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.

Intrepid

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

Intrepidity

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

Intrepidly

In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.

Intricacy

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.

Intricate

To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.

Intrigue

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

Intrinse

Tightly drawn; or (perhaps) intricate.

Intrinsicality

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

Intrinsically

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

Introductory

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

Intromit

To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

Introrse

Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs.

Introspect

To look into or within; to view the inside of.

Introspection

A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.

Introspectionist

One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.

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