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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.

Introversion

The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.

introversive

directed inward; marked by interest in oneself or concerned with inner feelings. Contrasted with extroversive.

Introvert

A person who is introverted; one concerned predominantly with himself or his own feelings. Contrasted with extrovert.

introverted

examining one's own sensory and perceptual experiences. Contrasted with extrospective.

Intrude

To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.

Intruder

One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.

Intrunk

To inclose as in a trunk; to incase.

Intrusionist

One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.

Intrusive

Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome.

Intrust

To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

Intubation

The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.

Intuitional

Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.

Intuitionalism

The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.

Intuitivism

The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive.

Intumesce

To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

Inturgescence

A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled.

Intussuscepted

Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated.

Intwine

To be or to become intwined.

Intwinement

The act of intwining, or the state of being intwined.

Intwist

To twist into or together; to interweave.

Inulin

A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric, having fructose units in place of most of the glucose units. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar, and replaces starch as the reserve food in Compositae. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, alant starch, etc.

Inuloid

A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahlia.

Inunction

The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.

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