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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.

Inunctuosity

The lack of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay.

Inurbane

Uncivil; unpolished; rude. Opposite of urbane.

Inurbanity

Lack of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness.

Inure

To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.

Inurement

Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

Inurn

To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.

Inutility

Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.

Invader

One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.

Invaginate

To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.

Invalid

To make or render invalid or infirm.

Invalidate

To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.

Invalidation

The act of inavlidating, or the state of being invalidated.

Invalidism

The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.

Invalidness

Invalidity; as, the invalidness of reasoning.

Invaluable

Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.

Invariability

The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.

Invariance

The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions.

Invariant

An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations.

Invasive

Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.

Invected

Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.

Invective

An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as, an invective against tyranny.

Inveigh

To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.

Inveigle

To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.

Inveiglement

The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction.

Inveil

To cover, as with a veil.

Invendibility

The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness.

Inventive

Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

Inventor

One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices, new drugs, new processes, or other useful objects or procedures.

Inventory

To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.

inventorying

the act or process of making an inventory; making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand.

Inversely

In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly.

Invertase

An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

Invertebrata

A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.

Invertebrate

Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebr/; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. One of the Invertebrata.

Invertin

An enzyme which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.

Invest

To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.

Investigate

To pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation.

investigating

the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.

Investigation

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Investigative

Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

investigatory

Of or pertaining to an investigation; accomplished by investigation; designed to find information or ascertain facts; as, investigatory committee; the investigatory excesses of the prosecutor.

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