(v. t.) To indue.

(n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

(n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.

(n.) A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.

(n.) A prologue indicating what follows.

(n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.

(n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.

(v. t.) To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.

(n.) A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.

(n.) A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.

(v. t.) See Endow.

(n.) Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.

(v. t.) To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

(v. t.) To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities.

(a.) Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.

(a.) Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.

(a.) Alt. of Inermous

(a.) Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

(a.) Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.

(a.) Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.

(v. t.) To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate.

(v. t.) To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

(v. t.) To offer, as violence.

(v. t.) To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

(v. t.) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.

(v. t.) To show; to manifest; to prove.

(v. t.) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.

(v. t.) To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory.

(n.) Something infixed.

(n.) That in which metal is cast; a mold.

(n.) A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.

(n.) A little island.

(v. t.) To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

(v. t.) To shut up or inclose, as in a pen.

(n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

(n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.

(n.) That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.

(n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.

(n.) Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.

(n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood.

(n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

(n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.

(n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.

(n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.

(v. i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.

(v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

(v. i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

(v. i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.

(v. i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

(v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

(v. i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

(v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

(v. t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

(v. t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

(v. t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

(n.) Same as Ixtle.

(a.) Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation.

(a.) Overgrown with ivy.

(pl. ) of Ivy

(n.) Alt. of Ixtli

(v. t.) To infold or involve; to wrap up.

(v. t.) To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.

(v. t.) To refer, ascribe, or attribute.

(pl. ) of Iambus

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ice

(n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

(n.) A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.

(adv.) In an icy manner; coldly.

(n.) A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

(n.) An icicle.

(a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.

(n.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.

(n.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

(pl. ) of Idea

(a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

(a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.

(a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.

(a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.

(a.) Imaginary.

(n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.

() A combining form from the Greek /, meaning private, personal, peculiar, distinct.

(n.) The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

(n.) An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author.

(n.) Dialect; a variant form of a language.

(n.) A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

(n.) An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.

(n.) A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.

(n.) A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.

(imp. & p. p.) of Idle

(n.) One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

(n.) One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch.

(n.) An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.

(n.) An Eskimo snow house.

(n.) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.

(n.) The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.

(a.) Pertaining to the ileum.

(a.) See Iliac, 1.

(n.) The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.

(n.) See Ilium.

(n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.

(a.) Pertaining to the ilium; iliac.

() A combining form used in anatomy to denote connection with, or relation to, the ilium; as, ilio-femoral, ilio-lumbar, ilio-psoas, etc.

(v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.

(v. i.) 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.

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

(a.) Burnt in.

(n.) An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.

(n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.

(n.) Show; appearance; cast.

(n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.

(n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.

(n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.

(v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.

(v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

(n.) Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience.

(n.) An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

(a.) to, or containing, iodine; specif., denoting those compounds in which it has a relatively high valence; as, iodic acid.

() Alt. of Iod-

(n.) A decree of the Sultan.

(a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the iris.

(n.) An image.

(n.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.

(n.) Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

(n.) A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.

(v. t.) To put under a ban.

(v. t.) To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

(v. t.) To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

(v. t.) To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

(n.) A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or combined with, the radical NH, which is called the imido group.

(a.) Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.

(a.) Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.

(n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

(n.) A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.

(a.) Irascible; passionate.

(v. t.) See Emmew.

(v. t.) To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.

(v. t.) To mix; to mingle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Imp

(a.) Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.

(n.) That which is void or empty.

(a.) Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.

(n.) Same as Inkle.

(adv.) Incognito.

(v. t.) To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure/ penalty, responsibility, etc.

(v. t.) To render liable or subject to; to occasion.

(v. i.) To pass; to enter.

(n.) An anvil.

(n.) One of the small bones in the tympanum of the ear; the anvil bone. See Ear.

(n.) The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the Rotifera.

(a.) Pertaining to the inion.

(n.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ink

(n.) One who, or that which, inks; especially, in printing, the pad or roller which inks the type.

(n.) A kind of tape or braid.

(v. t.) To guess.

(v. t.) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.

(v. t.) To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.

(n.) Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety.

(n.) A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.

(n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.

(n.) That which is let in or inland; an inserted material.

(v. t.) To inclose, as in a mew or cage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Inn

(v. i.) See Ensue, v. i.

(v. t.) To infix.

(n.) That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.

(n.) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

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

(adv.) Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.

() A combining form from the Gr. /, an idea.